A special court in Guinea sentenced the former president of the Constitutional Court to seven years in prison on Wednesday in Conakry, notably for illicit enrichment.

The Court for the Repression of Economic and Financial Offenses (CRIEF), an anti-corruption court established by the military officers who overthrew elected President Alpha Condé in 2021, also convicted Mohamed Lamine Bangoura of corruption, embezzlement of public funds, and money laundering in connection with the management of funds allocated to the Constitutional Court.

Bangoura must also pay a fine of two billion Guinean francs (€200,722) and will be barred from running for office for five years. The court also ordered the confiscation of his assets in Guinea and neighboring Senegal.

Bangoura is among approximately 180 senior officials or former ministers from Alpha Condé's administration (2010–2021) targeted by CRIEF proceedings since November 2022.

In June, prosecutors had requested a ten-year prison sentence for Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, a fine of 50 billion Guinean francs (approximately €5.1 million), and the confiscation of his assets.

The magistrate was prosecuted alongside other colleagues. Two of his co-defendants, who are on the run, were each sentenced to ten years in prison and fined five billion Guinean francs (€501,800), with arrest warrants also issued against them.

The three men were also ordered to jointly pay 41 billion Guinean francs (approximately €4.1 million) to the Guinean state.

The former president of the Constitutional Court, detained since December 2022, had denied the allegations. His defense had pleaded for acquittal, disputing the accusations against him.

General Mamadi Doumbouya was elected president in the December 28, 2025 presidential election after seizing power by force in the September 2021 coup, despite his initial promise to hand power back to civilians at the end of a transitional period.

He has ruled Guinea with an iron fist since the coup.

Mamadi Doumbouya had assured that there would be no "witch hunt" in the country, but the opposition denounces the repression of freedoms and the instrumentalization of the judiciary.



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