Fabien Duplex Ngongang to serve life imprisonment in SCDP case, the accused persons were also fined more than FCFA 175 million last Monday in the Special Criminal Court (TCS).

The judge had sentenced to ten years imprisonment lady Julie Ngwesse Muabe, Secretary of SCDP and life imprisonment to Fabien Duplex Ngongang promoter Alpha institutions Construction and Hydrochemistry Cameroon who remain at large.

Lydian Essome Engome, chief treasury department at SCDP and Armand Pandong in charge of clientele SGBC, also absent at the trial was also sentenced to the same penalty. In addition to this is a sum of over FCFA 175 million that defendants must jointly pay as damages to the SCDP.

An amount below FCFA 238 to 410 million suffered pecuniary and commercial demanded the plaintiff.

The verdict was indeed passed on Monday, May 18, 2015 in the case between the Cameroonian Oil Storage Company (SCDP) to ten people on duty at the SCDP, the SGBC , Community Credit Africa (Cca) and Advans Cameroon, the four convicts.

They were convicted of embezzlement and complicity to embezzlement of public funds in the amount of FCFA 165,636,078 housed in SGBC.

The other defendants: Linie Meckland Teumameu, Abiba Germaine Kamegne, Séraphine Assonfack Mafoumo, Francis and Priscilla Ouanto Ndjiadjeu Wanko Tounssi were acquitted for lack of evidence.

The defense counsel said he was outraged after the announcement of the award. The plaintiff expressed partial satisfaction to the verdict. Because it claimed more than FCFA 238 million loss expenses instead of FCFA 175 million adjured by the president of the court.

As a reminder, it all started in the month of October 2012 when the account of the SCDP domiciled in SGBC is debited in the amount of over FCFA 165 million transferred into the accounts of micro-finance Advans Cameroon (FCFA 80,175,159) Community Credit and Africa (FCFA 85,460,919) through fraudulent transfer orders without traceability within the SCDP on behalf of Cameroon Ets Hydrochemistry in favour of Fabien Duplex Ngongang.

The above defendants who addressed one way or another these transfer orders, were accused of misappropriation of FCFA 165,636,078 accommodated in the SGBC coercion, forgery and use of forgeries.

The sum of FCFA 165,636,078 F would have been charged in the execution of four false transfer orders. These were the numbers 7867 and 7872 in value of 46 F and 38 F million issued in favor of Alpha building whose bank account is opened in Advans Cameroon.

Also concerned accounts No. 7869 and 7874 in the amounts of 35 F and 44 million issued in favour of the company Hydrochemistry Cameroon whose bank account is opened in CCA.