There is a poetic justice in seeing a country's former chief tax collector prosecuted for allegedly miscounting. In Guinea, Aboubacar Makhissa Camara, former director-general of Taxes under Alpha Condé's regime, is being tried before the CRIEF for misuse of public funds, corruption, illicit enrichment and money laundering. The man who once demanded tax from others must now explain what became of the till.
The trial opened in January 2026. The state's legal agent summed it up bluntly: “significant state funds were diverted”. The exact amount, though, remains to be established — and it is precisely there that the judicial machine seizes up.
A trial stalling for want of answers
Hearing after hearing, the case has been adjourned: the banks and land registries are slow to hand over information on the defendant's accounts and assets. Hard to quantify an enrichment when those who hold the statements keep silent. The anti-corruption fight here runs into a very ordinary wall: administrative inertia, which often protects better than a lawyer.
What could be more logical than a former tax chief whose bank statements can't be obtained? The man knew better than anyone the art of circulating — or freezing — financial information. Guinean justice asks for figures; the banks answer with silence. At this rate, the only one with perfect command of the timetable is the defendant.
Tried in his absence
For a guest of honour is missing from his own trial: Makhissa Camara himself. Out of the country since the CNRD took power, he is declared on the run by the CRIEF, which has issued an arrest warrant. His defence pleads an absence “for health reasons”, not flight. The nuance changes the story, not the empty chair.
Flight, in these files, is almost a procedural strategy: you let the country try an empty seat while you tend your “health” abroad, preferably where extradition is slow and the climate mild. The former tax chief will at least have applied to himself the principle he enforced on others: never pay in cash what can be deferred.
Key points
- Aboubacar Makhissa Camara, ex-tax chief (Alpha Condé regime), tried by the CRIEF.
- Charges: misuse of public funds, corruption, illicit enrichment, money laundering.
- Trial opened in January 2026, adjourned several times (uncooperative banks and land registries).
- Defendant on the run (arrest warrant); the defence cites health reasons.
- Exact amount not established; presumption of innocence.
Magouilles & Compagnie verdict
Magouille or calomnie? The state says significant funds have vanished; they still have to be quantified and a present man tried. Holding verdict: a heavy accusation against the former chief tax collector, a file slowed by banking silences, a defendant nowhere to be found. When the man who ran the tax office evaporates with his statements, the first revenue to recover is the truth.
⚖ Your verdict Live
In your view, is this a case of magouille — or calomnie?
📚 Sources
- Guinée360 — « Le procès de l'ancien DG des Impôts s'ouvre »
- Mediaguinée — « L'affaire Makhissa bloquée par le silence des banques et des services fonciers »
- Guinée360 — « Il est en fuite et doit être recherché »
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