{"id":529071,"date":"2025-05-15T21:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=529071"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:11:41","slug":"parti-le-liberal-au-benin-une-affaire-de-corruption-eclabousse-le-ministere-de-linterieur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/parti-le-liberal-au-benin-une-affaire-de-corruption-eclabousse-le-ministere-de-linterieur\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin\u2019s Interior Ministry rocked by corruption scandal over recognition of political party \u2018Le Lib\u00e9ral\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two senior officials from Benin\u2019s Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (MISP) are at the center of a major corruption scandal linked to the administrative registration of the political party Le Lib\u00e9ral<\/em> (LLB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 14, 2025, the Minister of the Interior publicly confirmed the alleged involvement of two civil servants in a corruption case described as \u201cextremely serious.\u201d The scandal erupted as party leaders had just completed the final steps to secure a provisional registration certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a statement obtained by BeNews<\/em>, the registration process for Le Lib\u00e9ral<\/em> began in August 2024 and was marked by repeated back-and-forths between party representatives and ministry departments. After several technical and administrative rejections, a provisional receipt was finally issued on April 28, 2025, following the party\u2019s founding assembly in Abomey-Calavi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scandal surfaced during the final phase of submitting the documentation to the Journal Officiel<\/em> for formal recognition. Allegations point to two officials\u2014one from the Directorate of Political Parties and Electoral Affairs (DPPAE) and another from the Directorate of Internal Affairs and Religious Affairs (DAIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Confirmed acts of corruption”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Interior Minister revealed that the DAIC official allegedly approached Le Lib\u00e9ral<\/em>‘s party leader with an offer to \u201cfacilitate\u201d the approval process in exchange for payment. After accepting the offer, the official reportedly recruited a colleague from the DPPAE to assist in speeding up the file\u2019s processing, promising him a share of the bribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both officials are said to have received substantial sums of money in return for manipulating the administrative procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister, citing \u201creliable sources,\u201d announced a series of firm actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • The arrest of the two implicated civil servants and the alleged bribe-giver by the General Directorate of the Republican Police.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Referral of the case to the Economic and Financial Brigade for a full investigation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Immediate suspension of the two officials from their administrative duties, pending potential judicial proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    Two senior officials from Benin\u2019s Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (MISP) are at the center of a major corruption scandal linked to the administrative registration of the political party Le Lib\u00e9ral (LLB). On May 14, 2025, the Minister of the Interior publicly confirmed the alleged involvement of two civil servants in a corruption […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":529072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"pays":[119],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-529071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news-benews","8":"pays-benin"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529074,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529071\/revisions\/529074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529071"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=529071"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=529071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}