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Foutanga Babani Sissoko
Malian swindler, entrepreneur, and politician (died 2021)
Foutanga Babani Sissoko
Foutanga Babani Sissoko, known as Baba Sora (died March 2021) was a Malian entrepreneur and politician. Sissoko was a member of the National Assembly between 2002 and 2014. He was born in the village of Dabia, to the west of Mali's capital, Bamako. Little is known of Sissoko's early life. He was said to have swindled the Dubai Islamic Bank for US$242 million using claims he could perform black magic, a claim he denied saying he only went into the bank to receive a car loan. He could do it with the help of the bank manager, Mohammed Ayoub. From 1995 to 1998, Ayoub made 183 transfers into Sissoko's accounts around the world. With the money obtained from the bank, Sissoko could fulfill "his dream of opening an airline for West Africa". A used Hawker-Siddeley 125 and a pair of old Boeing 727s were the first airplanes he bought. In this way he founded Air Dabia, named after his native village. In 1996, Sissoko was arrested for trying to buy two Huey helicopters for Gambia. Because they could...
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