The Mauritanian Court of Appeals in Nouakchott rejected a request on Monday for the conditional release of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The court cited a possible violation of the conditions of strict judicial oversight.
The Mauritanian Public Prosecution had requested the investigating judge to place the former president in pre-trial detention because “he had failed to sign-in twice with the police.”
Eight months ago, the Mauritanian judiciary charged fourteen people with corruption, abuse of power, abuse of influence and illicit enrichment, including the former president and some of his aides and cronies. He was detained on June 22 for the same charges.
In August, the Supreme Court in the capital upheld a decision to jail the former president and continue an investigation on financial corruption during his term in office.