Cameroon maintains "Operation Epervier" against Corruption

According to Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the Government Minister of Communication, "the Cameroonian Government maintains the continuation of "Operation Epervier."

It is the epitome of the statement to the press by the Minister of Communication which was surrounded by circumstances regarding Laurent Esso, Minister of State in charge of Justice and keeper of the seals.

The Cameroonian authorities denounce a media campaign of sabotage.

"For several weeks, a certain opinion if harnessed to debate the continuation of the fight against corruption that the head of State has registered in recent years, to the rank of priority actions to clean up the behavior and ensure the protection of the public fortune» Issa Tchiroma Bakary hammered last night.

A misinterpretation of the facts, after the release and the pardon occurred through Decree presidential no. 2014 / 058 of February 18, 2014, and probably for the first time, extending to persons detained under the hijackings.

In recalling, the context of the liberation of the said prisoners, which is the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary and Reunification, the Member of the Cameroonian Government, reaffirmed "any determination of Paul Biya to pursue relentlessly and without complacency, the struggle that he undertook against harm to public fortune."

The Decree of February is a text of general scope applicable to anyone that would in one figure case provided by the text. In the context of the fight against corruption, the high courts are also involved in the Operation.

As information, 119 records coming from the high courts, of which the amounts were high, were transferred to the Tcs.

This is responsible for the diversion of the order of at least 50 million. 39 of these records were recruited immediately. So far, 19 cases have been dismissed and 107 have been referred to the Tcs.

On April 03, 2014, the Tcs made 52 decisions 36 at the bottom and 16 interlocutory.

26 defendants were acquitted and 51 convicts. Some have had remedies. Some surveys have been included.