A whooping $11 million is missing from The Gambian treasury following the departure of long-time leader Yahya Jammeh, an adviser to President Adama Barrow has said.
Mai Ahmad Fatty said financial experts were trying to evaluate the exact loss, the BBC reports.
Luxury cars and other items were reportedly loaded on to a Chadian cargo plane as Mr Jammeh left the country.
Mr Jammeh, who flew into exile after 22 years in power, has not commented on the allegations.
He had refused to accept election results but finally left after mediation by regional leaders and the threat of military intervention.
Mr Fatty told reporters in the Senegalese capital Dakar that The Gambia was in financial distress.
“The coffers are virtually empty,” he said. “It has been confirmed by technicians in the ministry of finance and the Central Bank of the Gambia.”
According to him, Mr Jammeh had made off with nearly 500 million dalasis ($11.3m) in the past two weeks alone.
“That’s a lot of money, considering that we spend about 200 million dalasis on required expenditure relating to payment of civil service and so forth,” Mr Fatty told the BBC.
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