On Wednesday evening, former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was moved to the Nouakchott Military Hospital for emergency treatment, his attorney, Mohamed Eddine Ashdo, told AFP yesterday, December 30.
Mr. Ashdo then appealed to the authorities for his client to be cleared to travel abroad for medical treatment.
“Some members of his family visited him and said that his condition was worrying but stable.”
A statement issued by his family said they expressed “fear for his physical liquidation” by the regime which “failed in its attempts to liquidate him politically.”
In his tenure as president, Abdel Aziz held office from 2008 to 2019. According to an investigative judge in Nouakchott, he was indicted on charges of corruption, money laundering, illicit enrichment, waste of public property, and obstruction of justice.
In August of this year, the Supreme Court in the capital ruled that the former president must be imprisoned while a probe is continued into allegations of financial corruption during his term as president.
His request for conditional release, submitted in November, was denied.
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