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Khest Media > Actu > All > Seychelles: Three Years Since Valabhji Couple Arrested in Money Laundering and Arms Instances in Seychelles
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Seychelles: Three Years Since Valabhji Couple Arrested in Money Laundering and Arms Instances in Seychelles

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Last updated: 25/11/2024
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This week marked three years since the prominent Seychellois businessman Mukesh Valabhji and his wife Laura, a attorney, seemed in the Supreme Court docket after being arrested on November 18, 2021, by police on suspicion of cash laundering of $50 million and possession of firearms.

The couple has been on remand since, and the cash laundering costs had been eliminated against Laura.

The case is said to $50 million granted to the Seychelles’ authorities by the United Arab Emirates in 2002. The funds had been transferred to a checking memoir of the Seychelles Marketing Board (SMB), now the Seychelles Trading Firm (STC), to a Baroda checking memoir in England. On the time, Mukesh Valabhji used to be the managing director of the SMB, and the prosecution alleges that the funds had been returned to Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, to pay for motels equipped in the privatisation of the COSPROH holdings, a inform-owned enterprise that owned loads of motels, of which Mukesh Valabhji used to be the government chairman.

SNA appears to be like at the main points in the case three years after the arrest of the Valabhji couple.

Search of the property – fingers discovery

During the quest at the couple’s region, the police came all the diagram thru a cache of fingers. Rapidly after, Leslie Benoiton, a senior officer in the used Seychelles Of us’s Defence Forces–now identified because the Seychelles Defence Forces–used to be arrested in connection to the cache of fingers. A separate case used to be opened on the possession of these weapons.

Excessive-stage officers and used First Girl arrested

On November 23, 2021, two used excessive authorities officers, used minister Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, who used to be considered one of many used directors of the Compagnie Seychelloise de Promotion Hôtelière (COSPROH), and Lekha Nair, a used director common at the Ministry of Finance at the time, had been also arrested.

Whereas Nair used to be granted bail, Loustau-Lalanne used to be remanded unless all suspects seemed before the Supreme Court docket on December 3, 2021.

On November 27, Sarah Zarqhani Rene, the wife of behind President France Albert Rene, used to be arrested as section of the ongoing case of the missing $50 million.

All six suspects had been formally charged on December 17, 2021.

Mukesh Valabhji used to be charged with conspiracy to commit legit corruption contrary to sections 91 and 381 of the Penal Code and and used First Ladyconspiracy to commit cash laundering. His wife, Laura Valabhji, used to be charged with cash laundering.

Leslie Benoiton used to be charged with cash laundering for corruptly obtaining $100,000 by manner of charge from Mukesh Valabhji with out correct authority or excuse.

Three others charged with cash laundering had been Lekha Nair, Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, and Sarah Zarqhani Rene.

Bail for Nair, Loustau-Lalanne, and Zarqhani used to be granted, whereas the Valabhji couple and Benoiton remain to this point on remand.

Nair used to be released after paying an SCR 50,000 ($3,768) bail bond, and Loustau-Lalanne after paying an SCR 250,000 ($18,837) bail bond and providing two sureties of SCR 100,000 ($7,535) every, in addition to handing his passport to the authorities.

Bail for Zarqhani used to be dwelling at $2 million with two sureties of $1 million every. She did now not pay the bail dwelling and remained in police custody.

On December 29, 2021, two used officers of the Seychelles Defence Forces had been arrested–75-yr-ancient retired brigadier and used Chief of the Seychelles Of us’s Defence Forces (SPDF), Leopold Payet, and 81-yr-ancient retired lieutenant colonel and presidential chief security officer, Frank Marie.

The five suspects in the ongoing possession of firearms case–Valabhji and his wife Laura, Benoiton, Payet, and Frank Marie–had been formally charged on February 11, 2022.

They had been charged with abuse of authority of administrative heart for possession of firearms, employ of property for the commission of terrorist acts, conspiracy to commit offenses below the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and acquisition and possession of firearms or ammunition with out a license below the Firearms and Ammunition Act.

Marie used to be released on bail on February 25, 2022, in consequence of correctly being points.

Case transferred to the Region of business of the Licensed loyal Total

On Would perhaps perhaps simply 6, 2022, the cash laundering case of the missing $50 million from Seychelles’ authorities accounts used to be transferred to the Region of business of the Licensed loyal Total.

This came after it used to be revealed that the powers of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Seychelles (ACCS) to prosecute six defendants are restricted both in time and in regard to the offences unless amendments are made to the Anti-Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (AMLFT) Act 2020.

Costs amended, some accused released

After the amendments to the legislation had been made by the National Meeting on Would perhaps perhaps simply 19, 2022, the ACCS filed amended costs for cash laundering against businessman Mukesh Valabhji and used First Girl Sarah Zarqhani Rene. Whereas Valabhji remained in custody, Zarqhani Rene used to be released.

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All costs against Nair and Loustau-Lalanne in the cash laundering accounts had been dropped.

Costs concerning cash laundering had been withdrawn against Laura Valabhji pending further investigations, but she remains on remand in relation to the firearms and prevention of terrorism case.

The Supreme Court docket had dwelling December 1, 2023, because the date for the fingers and ammunition trial, and the hearing is ongoing, whereas the corruption case’s initial trial date used to be dwelling for April 13, 2023.

This date used to be later moved to Would perhaps perhaps simply 11, 2023, because the couple seemed before Settle Mohan Burhan concerning their examine for Chief Justice Govinden’s recusal from their instances.

ACCS to resume corruption case once the ongoing unlawful fingers case concludes

Despite announcing the trial date for the corruption case, the ACCS head, Would perhaps perhaps simply de Silva, announced in the National Meeting in November 2023 that it can handiest resume the corruption case once the unlawful fingers and ammunition case involves a conclusion.

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