Gambia: Former Eco Bank Employee Convicted of Theft and Forgery –

By Dawda M. Jallow

Alieu Fatty, a former employee of Eco Bank, was convicted on Tuesday for stealing by clerk and servant and forgery by Magistrate Mben Faal of the Kanifing Magistrate Court.

Fatty pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to pay a fine of D25,000 for the first count of theft, with a default to serve two years imprisonment. For the second charge of forgery, he was ordered to pay D10,000, with a default sentence of one year. Additionally, Fatty was ordered to…