Senegal says ex-president Wade's son freed after graft pardon Senegalese President Macky Sall has pardoned Karim Wade, the divisive son of his predecessor and a former minister who was convicted of graft offences in March 2015. In detention since his 2013 arrest, Wade was serving a six-year sentence after a court found he illicitly amassed a fortune worth at least 178 million euros ($198 million). IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.