Alice Nkom finally takes up the case of Mebara

Me Alice Nkom has taken up the case of Mebara as she was spotted at the defense bench, in accordance with the ethics and regulations, during the last hearing in the albatross affair on August 19, 2015, according to the daily La Nouvelle Expression.

Her clients, Jean Marie Atangana Mebara, was being prosecuted for the embezzlement of public funds in complicity of the sum of $ 5 million, equivalent to about 3.875.000.000 FCFA.

Her plea was very expected by the audience, reported the newspaper. But "newly incorporated, she requested a brief reference to the folder."

Me Alice Nkom decided to defend the interests of the ex SG/PR after the withdrawal of former advicers of Atangana Mebara. According to the newspaper, Me Assira mentioned inter alia that "validation by the tribunal of the obstruction deliberately made by the public prosecutor in the presence of the witnesses for the defense is unjustifiable."

For Me Assira, the trial was seriously unbalanced. "The deconstitution of Me Assira Engoute and Ekani also gave rise to a little bitter exchange through newspapers between the collective of lawyers in the state and Me Assira Engouté", added the newspaper.

Former Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic was arrested on August 4, 2008 and placed under provisional warrant at Kondengui Central Prison for the ‘Albatross’ case, a generic name which refers to the incident about the acquisition of the presidential aircraft at Boeing.”

From the newspaper "the failed acquisition has, nevertheless, created a true judicial tsunami in the entourage of the president of the Republic. Today, we have not finished counting the actual or fictitious victims and the collateral victims of this case.”

The case was referred to August 25, 2015.