Actualités of Sunday, 26 October 2014

Source: Cameroon Tribune

D-G of SGB cross-examined in the SCDP case

Philippe Guillaume, Director General of the Société générale de banque au Cameroun opened the phase of hearings for witnesses Wednesday at the CHT.

It was during the continuation of the hearings of the accused, SGB staff then SGBC at the time of the facts and the witnesses for the defence.

Here, Linie Meckland Teumameu, Armand Pandong, Abiba Germaine Kamegne, Julie Ngwesse Muabe, Fabien Duplex Ngongang, Lydienne Essome Engome, Séraphine Assonfack Mafoumo, Francis Ouanto Ndjiadjeu, Priscille Wanko Tounssi and Francis Tadjuidje in service at Scdp to the Sgbc community of Africa (Cca) credit and Advans Cameroon are accused of misuse of 165,636,078 F kept at the Sgbc in complicity with forgery and use of forgeries. The have been charged in execution of four transfer orders.

Through the finding made public June 17, 2013, through Me David Tamo, its counsel, Scdp claimed the overall sum of 244 745 956 F, including the financial injury suffered. According to the Director-general of the SGB, "the absence or the presence of signature of a customer load does influence the payment of a transfer order in society.

According to him, the treatment of the OV followed the normal route at the Bank and the signatures on the fraudulent Ov cannot be that of Armand Pandong, responsible for customer at the Sgb. However, the advocate general insisted on the complicity of embezzlement at the level of the Sgbc.

Because according to this latest in the preliminary investigation, the operators of seizure of the Sgb had recognized signatures on the OV as being those of Armand Pandong.