Pursued on the basis of business contracts deemed dubious and flagged by the National Financial Information Processing Unit (Centif), Madiambal Diagne categorically rejected the accusations, claiming to have entered into a valid contract with the French company Ellipse, which he says helped secure lucrative contracts in Senegal.

According to the newspaper EnQuête, after initially helping the company secure the contract for the construction of hospitals in Touba, Kaffrine, Kédougou, and Sédhiou for free, the businessman later formalized a contract with Ellipse for the judicial infrastructure market.

Still according to EnQuête, Madiambal Diagne specified: “It should be noted that this contract was initially awarded to the Chinese company that built the toll highway, for a sum of 400 million euros. They were supposed to execute the project over four years, while Senegal had proposed to pay installments over ten years. The Chinese did not want to take the risk because of the election,” he confided according to information reported by EnQuête.

This is how Madiambal Diagne says he alerted his French partner to this important state program. This time, having a real estate company, he would have offered them his services in exchange for market shares for the said company. For him, everything was carried out in accordance with the rules and to Ellipse’s satisfaction, still according to the information gathered by EnQuête.

What seems inconsistent in this case, he points out, is that while the State of Senegal is targeting him, the French company Ellipse, which continues its activities in the country undisturbed, is not at all worried. “There are also those who represented the State of Senegal, who are there and not worried. Out of forty-nine subcontractors, only Madiambal seems to interest them. This proves that there is a targeting of my person and that there is nothing serious in the file,” argued the businessman, quoted by EnQuête.

Still according to the same newspaper, Madiambal Diagne went even further, accusing one of Ousmane Sonko’s lawyers of becoming Ellipse’s lawyer, which, according to him, casts further doubt on the transparency of the case.