According to the Investigator, Niamey's main private daily, “fourteen people are being prosecuted”. We learned on Thursday that several civil servants were imprisoned for their alleged involvement in the affair of the embezzlement of eight billion CFA francs from the public treasury.

According to the local press, the main architect of this alleged hijacking was arrested in May and imprisoned in a prison near Niamey, the capital. “Nigerian civil servants have been placed under arrest warrant”. Neither the number nor the identity of the defendants were specified. In mid-July, Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, elected in February, revealed that he had ordered an inspection of the Nigerien Treasury to investigate these embezzlements. According to the services of the Public Prosecutor in Niamey, the inspection concerned funds "taken out by an agent of the Transport Service of the Presidency of the Republic", he said in an interview with television. "I submitted the file to the Minister of Justice, instructing him to refer it to the Prosecutor so that a judge could be appointed and justice could do its job without any form of hindrance", he assured, specifying that the agent had embezzled eight billion CFA francs. He is accused of having brought out the sum between 2017 and 2021 thanks to "false payment authorization letters". The inspection report uncovered a chain of alleged complicities involving senior Treasury officials, politicians and ministers, according to Le Courrier, another private Nigerien newspaper.