Account history of Abah Abah finally presented in Court

The case between the State of Cameroon and the public prosecutor and former Minister of Finance and ex CEO of taxes, Polycarpe Abah Abah will finally continue after several delays due to the absence of the account history of the former Minfi.

The document was presented at the hearing of October 02, 2015, at the Special Criminal Court by the representative of the public prosecutor, the Attorney general T. Jean-Claude..

According to the daily La Nouvelle Expression on Tuesday, October 06, 2015, the “accounts history of ex-MINEFI and former Director of taxes at the time of the facts, from 2000-2004, will be cross examined to enable the clarity of the actual accounts of the ex-Minefi.”

However, the prosecution and the defense could not exploit the document consisting of 20 sheets. The collective of the defense of Abah Abah have sought and obtained a postponement of the case to familiarize themselves with the document.

Recalling the facts, the newspaper revealed that on July 20, 2000, Polycarpe Abah Abah, then Director of taxes, sent a letter to the Director General of the Commercial Bank of Cameroon. In this correspondence, the former Dg stated: “Mr. Director General, examination of the statement of my personal account n ° 301 807-01-S, open in your books reveals you credited it on May 5, 2000 with an amount of 1.158.352.393 FCFA by the debit account 301 897 - 01 - M (refund VAT). I have the honour to let you know that I did not on any given order to credit my personal account with the proceeds of the VAT account.”

In a response which was addressed the same day, the Director General of the CBC argued that it “was an error generated by less careful agent, because of the similarity of the account numbers. Having taken cognizance of the error, we have unilaterally decided and corrected the accounting entries originally on your personal account by debiting the account ‘Refund of VAT’ to avoid the signature of the State and the Director of taxes posing as a problem.”

The case was adjourned to October 14, 2015.