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### Viewing cable 10DAKAR127, Ambassador Discusses Corruption with Senegalese President

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10DAKAR127 | 2010-02-18 17:05 | 2010-12-09 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Dakar

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 DAKAR 000127

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS
    AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PASS TO AMEMBASSY MALABO

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/18
    TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM KMCA ECON SG
    SUBJECT: Ambassador Discusses Corruption with Senegalese President

    REF: 09 DAKAR 1069

    CLASSIFIED BY: Marcia Bernicat, Ambassador, DOS, Exec; REASON:
    1.4(B), (D)

    ¶1. (U) Summary: After nearly two hours of a mostly one-on-one
    discussion that included lighter and more tense exchanges,
    Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade took the suggestion to
    demonstrate tangible steps of fighting corruption. Wade relied on
    his standard defense of the fact there have been no cases of
    corruption brought to trial in recent years. Despite reports from
    the budget inspector's court and the inspector general's office,
    there have been no trials of prominent civilian or political
    figures since Wade's election in 2000. Wade first claimed that: 1)
    his political enemies are using the press to make false
    accusations, 2) it is difficult to prove corruption exists, and 3)
    as President he cannot possibly monitor everything that happens in
    his government. He finally acknowledged that it was statistically
    impossible for his claims that there is no corruption in Senegal to
    be true, and that he needed to address donor concerns regarding
    increased corruption in Senegal. Recalling conversations he had
    last fall with the Secretary and President Obama, the Ambassador
    urged President Wade to help the U.S. continue to help Senegal by
    demonstrating through concrete actions a reduction in corruption
    levels to avoid any governance-related sanctions. End Summary.

    ¶2. (U) Ambassador Bernicat opened the one-on-one conversation with  President Abdoulaye Wade by presenting him with a signed copy of a  photo with Secretary Clinton prior to the signing of the MCC
    Compact Agreement in September 2009 and commending his humanitarian  outreach to Haitian earthquake victims. She further praised Wade's  January 21, 2010 announcement to his Counsel of Ministers of the  importance of fighting corruption and that he was open to the  possibility of giving Senegal's Anti-Corruption Commission greater  autonomy. She explained, however, that there was growing concern  in the United States and among Senegal's other donors and the  international community about the increase in corruption in Senegal  and impunity towards it. His recent response to a letter he  received from the new President of MCC, Daniel W. Yohannes,  dismissing the issue, she added, served to underline those  concerns.

    ¶3. (U) President Wade responded initially by explaining that it is
    difficult to "prove a negative" and that his government does not
    seek out cases, absent specific details. It is most important, he
    argued, for a government to demonstrate its political will to fight
    corruption when it arises, not to go on witch hunts. By way of
    example, he acknowledged the European Union had raised concerns  about the sale of land used to fund the construction of the African  Renaissance Monument, but insisted he has satisfied those concerns.  He continued with a detailed explanation regarding why the convoluted sale of public land at different prices was required.
    The Ambassador countered that the opaque way in which the land was  sold had lent itself to charges of corruption. (FYI. See reftel -
    and note that the EU Resident Representative in Dakar found
    President Wade's explanation unconvincing and remains critical of
    the land deal. End FYI.)

    4.(U) The Ambassador responded to President Wade's request for
    specific cases to pursue by asking about the status of the
    forty-nine cases of alleged money laundering that Senegal's
    Financial Investigative Unit CENTIF has referred to the State
    Prosecutor since 2005, but which have not yet been brought to
    trial. Wade initially responded that the GOS did not want to
    discourage foreign investments by scrutinizing every money
    transfer. Following the Ambassador's brief explanation that cases
    brought to CENTIF were part of a well-regulated international
    system made more robust in the wake of the discovery of the role
    that terrorist financing played in the 9/11 attacks, Wade convoked
    both the head of CENTIF, Ngouda Fall Kane, and the new Justice
    Minister, El Hadj Amadou Sall, to explain the delay. He demurred
    that he could not interfere in another branch of government, but
    the Ambassador parried that it was important, given his commitment
    to end corruption, to follow such cases closely and help break any
    logjams when they occur. As Senegal was the first Francophone
    African member to join Egmont in May 2009, it has a special
    responsibility to lead by example. Sall confirmed that CENTIF
    cases needed to be taken seriously.

    5.(U) Justice Minister Sall, the third person to hold the post in
    the last 4 months, had the advantage of inheriting the delays and

    DAKAR 00000127 002 OF 003

    assured Wade he would investigate the nature of the delays and
    resolve them as soon as possible. He also claimed to be pursuing a
    number of other corruption cases at the moment and would have some arrests to report shortly.
    XXXXXXXXXXXX

    ¶6. (U) Wade relied only briefly on the argument he used with
    President Obama last fall - that his political enemies are inciting
    the press to fabricate stories about corruption, but shifted fairly
    quickly when the Ambassador asserted that the perception of
    widespread corruption has now become a reality that only concrete
    actions can effectively address. Another recurring theme
    throughout the discussion was that, as President, Wade claimed he
    could not possibly know the behavior of every government official.
    The Ambassador contended each time that he needed to create an
    environment in which it is clear corruption will not be tolerated
    and follow through by having those guilty arrested and prosecuted,
    highlighting recent years of U.S. assistance to train law
    enforcement and judicial authorities in combating money laundering,
    corruption, and other transnational crimes. The Ambassador then
    argued that corruption is everywhere in the world and that it is
    statistically impossible for there to be no cases in Senegal.
    Wade, who has an advanced degree in mathematics and statistics,
    chuckled and conceded, agreeing that he needed to demonstrate
    concrete steps to fight corruption.

    ¶7. (U) Finally, citing U.S. legislation which now requires
    Secretary Clinton's certification of each country's budget
    transparency, the Ambassador urged President Wade to adopt the
    Integrated System of Public Financial Management "SIGFIP," a
    computer system whose automation of the budget process will
    significantly enhance Senegal's fiscal reform efforts by making
    public funds fully accountable. Wade assured the Ambassador that
    only he had been successful in reducing the backlog of the final
    budget review process, but the Ambassador noted that the current
    backlog meant Senegal would still not meet the standard of the
    legislation. SIGFIP would be a comprehensive and foolproof way to
    regulate potential corrupt spending within the ministries.
    (Comment: Local World Bank officials have promised to pass summary  information on SIGFIP to Wade. End Comment)

    ¶8. (SBU) Tellingly, President Wade ended the discussion by abruptly
    asking for assurances that the U.S. Government would not deny
    Senegal the MCC Compact at this point, given its focus on improving
    conditions of the country's poorest. Ambassador Bernicat explained
    to him that development assistance was targeted for a country's
    most needy; MCC Compacts were reserved for the developing world's  best performers. She stressed that legislation requires that
    continued declines in measures of good governance, corruption, or
    other indicators would result in Senegal losing its Compact, as
    could other egregious acts that meet with Congressional
    appropriators' disapproval. That would be especially true of
    corruption, she added, reminding him that some Members of Congress  had expressed their concerns at the time the Compact was signed.

    ¶9. (SBU) This meeting closely followed discussions in which the
    European Union Representative, the DCM, and Ambassador made similar  points to President Wade's son, Karim, the Minister for
    International Cooperation, Land Use, Air Transport and
    Infrastructure. The Ambassador also briefed a group of core donors
    (France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Canada, European Union, World
    Bank, and, for the first time in a group setting, China) following
    a series of individual meetings to compare notes (as is customary)
    and report on actions to counter corruption in Senegal. The group
    agreed to continue to place pressure on the Wade administration
    constructively, in part, by drawing on a common set of talking
    points condemning corruption to raise the level of intolerance for
    it in this pre-election season.

    ¶10. (C) Comment: Several actions (reported septel) taken prior to
    or following this discussion suggest to the hopeful that President
    Wade is finally taking steps to curb corruption, but post believes
    he will walk a fine line between taking these steps and continuing

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    to allow those used to helping themselves to government funds to do
    so to ensure their loyalties remain intact. The striking
    similarities of the father and son on this issue suggest the two
    continue to underestimate the importance of this issue to the
    donors and, increasingly, to the electorate. It also suggests that
    they continue to work in concert toward preparing the way for a
    presidential dynastic succession rather than, as some speculate,
    that Karim Wade was undermining a father increasingly sidelined by
    his own political missteps of the last few months. President Wade,
    who reportedly is more frequently frail and distracted, was robust
    and in command of the subject matter throughout the nearly two-hour
    discussion. End comment.
    SMITH

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