The first of them, bill No. 12/2025 provides for a reform of the previously existing National Office for Combating Fraud and Corruption (Office National de Lutte contre la Fraude et la Corruption) and its replacement with the new National Office for Combating Corruption (Office National de Lutte contre la Corruption – OFNAC).

The document, among other things:

• Establishes the autonomy and independence of the OFNAC while securing its institutional subordination to the President of the Republic and exclusion of audit and investigation of fraud from its functions that are delegated to other control bodies;
• Entitles the OFNAC to listen to any individuals involved, gather evidence, including documents, require the access to bank and financial information, and, where necessary, adopt temporary measures to freeze or seize assets to prevent them from being concealed (whereas permanent confiscation rests with the judicial bodies);
• Stipulates that all reports of the control, audit and inspection bodies (for example, the Accounts’ Chamber, State Inspectorate, other inspection institutions) are subject to open access publication.

The second bill No. 13/2025 introduces for the first time in Senegal a comprehensive legal protection for the persons who, in the framework of their professional activities, report corruption, fraud or other violations concerning the public interest. According to the Platform for Protection of Whistleblowers in Africa (Plateforme de protection des lanceurs d’alerte en Afrique), Senegal is the first French-speaking sub-Saharan country to adopt such a law.

As per the act, a whistleblower is a natural person acting in the framework of their professional activities who reports in good faith facts of corruption, financial misconduct, threats or damage to the public interest. The status of whistleblower is also provided to:

• Natural or legal persons who provide assistance and support to a whistleblower in making a disclosure or drafting a report;
• Natural persons who, due to a disclosure, can be subject to the risks of violence, threats, intimidation or retaliation in the context of their professional activities;
• Legal persons controlled by a whistleblower, for which the latter works or with which it is connected in the professional context.

Reports can be made by whistleblowers, in the first place, through the internal and external channels (for instance, through the OFNAC or another authorised body). If the report is not followed by a reply or response measures by the set deadline, it is possible to make a public disclosure.

The protection measures that whistleblowers can count on include the prohibition of retaliation due to their disclosure (dismissal, demotion, reductions in salary, persecution, etc.). Moreover, the whistleblowers who report the information that leads to the seizure of illegal funds and assets can count on a reward amounting to 10% of the sum confiscated or another sum determined by competent authorities. In order to ensure the payment of rewards a Special Fund for Confiscating Illegal Assets will be established.

Finally, yet another bill No. 15/2025 expands the range of persons obliged to declare their assets.

The previous law on anti-corruption declaration dated 2014 covered only high-ranking officials such as the president of the National Assembly, prime minister, ministers and auditors responsible for managing over 1 billion CFA francs (roughly 1,800,000 US dollars).

The new version, firstly, reduces from 1 billion to 500 million CFA francs (around 900,000 US dollars) the threshold implying the obligation to declare for the persons managing public assets; secondly, it includes prosecutors, investigating judges, members of local government bodies, auditors and heads of public companies in the category of declarants. All these individuals will have to declare their asses upon assuming their office and upon termination.

Additionally, the bill provides for tougher sanctions for violations related to declaration. In particular, deliberate concealment of property or provision of false/inaccurate information in a declaration is punishable by imprisonment for a period ranging between six months and four years and a fine.

It should be highlighted that the bill has been criticised by the opposition, primarily because it exempts the president of the country from the obligation to declare their assets at the end of their term. In return, representatives of the government have stressed that the Constitution that has the supreme legal force requires that the president must submit their asset declaration only at the beginning of their term.