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Top Gbagbo regime general detained
Top Gbagbo regime general detained : News24: Africa: News
Abidjan - A general considered one of the most powerful officers in the regime of Ivory Coast's ex-strongman Laurent Gbagbo has been detained over alleged robbery and a probe into a mass grave, prosecutors said on Thursday.
General Georges Guiai Bi Poin led the much-feared CECOS special operations unit that was tasked with securing the economic capital Abidjan under ex- president Gbagbo.
The unit, a crucial security organ, was linked to scores of rights abuses and accused by critics of using brutal tactics.
The general was arrested on Saturday in the context of an inquiry into a "mass grave" discovered by authorities, said a statement sent to AFP by prosecutors in Abidjan.
The statement also said Guiai Bi Poin was placed in custody and charged in connection with "an economic infraction".
The general's lawyer, Raoul Gohi-Bi, told AFP his client "is being held [in Abidjan] for violent armed robbery, misappropriation of public funds [and] damaging the national economy".
President Alassane Ouattara has vowed to unite the country after emerging victorious from a bitter and violent political standoff with his rival Gbagbo, which left some 3 000 people dead.
Top Gbagbo regime general detained : News24: Africa: News