With toad drool in his mouth, insulting and slandering many Senegalese, via social networks, Ousmane Tounkara is quite simply caught up by his obscure past, with, in filigree, a dark smuggling of luxury cars of the BMW brand, Mercedes Benz and Range Rover stolen in the United States and to be loaded onto freighters bound for ports in West Africa in containers. Flashback on this dark affair which ended with an agreement negotiated with the American judicial services after Ousmane Tounkara himself, on the one hand balanced the other West African accused and on the other hand, served a light sentence with his privilege of American citizen. It was in 2015… The newspaper returns to the scene of the crime.
What had happened in May 2015 in the United States and what was Ousmane Tounkara’s criminal responsibility in this case? The case had hit the headlines in the United States, after a federal court filed a complaint against seven people of West African origin including Ousmane Tounkara, for criminal conspiracy in a conspiracy to illegal export and transport. of stolen cars.
For American justice, the defendants would have supervised to perfection, the loading of the stolen cars in shipping containers bound for West Africa.
It was following a careful investigation that HSI’s Border Law Enforcement Task Force (BEST) seized 249 stolen luxury cars valued at over $ 16 million (approximately 9 , 36 billion FCfa). In short, high-end luxury cars including models from world-leading manufacturers such as BMW, Mercedes Benz and Range Rover.
And it was at this stage of the investigation that the name of Ousmane Tounkara appeared. Facebook’s “insulting gentleman” was cited in US court documents along with six other people. They were Adama Kamara, Boubakar Sacko, Dambelly Sarjo, Lamin Saho, Mamadou Habib Diallo and Oluwasoji Osho.
According to American justice, Ousmane Tounkara and his acolytes did know that the cars had been stolen, before loading them in containers and transporting them to a port for transport to West Africa.
Adama Kamara, Boubakar Sacko, Dambelly Sarjo, Oluwasoji Osho
A large 19-month investigation was collegially conducted by the US Homeland Security Investigation (HSI), the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau and the Auto Crime Division of the New York Police Department; United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of National Insurance Crime, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
According to court documents, Adama Kamara, Boubakar Sacko, Dambelly Sarjo, Lamin Saho, Mamadou Habib Diallo, Ousmane Tounkara and Oluwasoji Osho knew the cars had been stolen, but loaded them into containers and transported them to a port for transport. to West Africa.
Thus, it is undoubtedly a large network of criminal smuggling harmful to the American industry and economy, by exploiting commerce and defrauding the American government for West Africa, which had thus been dismantled by the United States. American services.
Ousmane Tounkara et Cie were thus accused of working for this program by renting luxury cars to different national car rental companies, sometimes using a false identity, before driving the cars to a place agreed in advance to store them. temporarily.
The other members of this mafia system then collected the cars and drove them to a second location, where the defendants monitored and assisted in loading the luxury cars into shipping containers. Shipping documents filed with CBP revealed that the luxury cars were to be loaded onto freighters bound for West African ports.
This United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) investigation, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the New York Police Department, demonstrated vigilance and exceptional talent to prevent in the aftermath, that more than 200 stolen luxury vehicles have been smuggled abroad to West Africa.
Ousmane Tounkara negotiates and balances other Africans
This exciting story continued in the Southern District of New York before Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein. And according to the sources of our newspaper, Ousmane Tounkara as provided for by law in the United States, quite simply negotiated the relief of his sentence as is done in the famous American series “The Blacklist”, by “swaying” the other accused .
He thus took Guineans and Ivorians to the guillotine, collaborating with FBI investigators. In doing so, Ousmane Tounkara thus served a light sentence since he was lucky enough to have papers in the Usa. Residence monitored electronic bracelet until the dismantling of this great Mafia. Almost four years later, this dark story catches up with Ousmane Tounkara, when he became an active social media activist with the One Million March movement.
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