Dayas Mounoume disappears after being sentence to 15 years in prison

Jean Marcel Dayas Mounoumè did not attend the last hearing of the lawsuit against him after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the embezzlement of public funds on July 3, 2015 in Yaoundé.

While it was generally believed that he was behind the Yaoundé Central prison bars, the daily Le Jour revealed in its Monday July 13, 2015 edition that, the former director general of the Douala Port who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the misappropriation of public funds was never arrested after his verdict was announced.

The reason given was that since he was not present on the last day of the verdict by the special Criminal Court, the arrest and imprisonment warrants issued against him could not be executed.

"From the information gathered, he left Cameroon in the wake of the sentence,” stated the Le Jour newspaper about the accused who was present during all the court hearings for a year.

The very active member of the CPDM was accused of embezzling 458 million Cfa Francs concerning the Autonomous Port of Douala and the While nile cooperation agreement. The Port was ordered by a Paris Court to pay 450 million to Whle nile.

The Board of Directors asked Mounoume to pay by bank transfer. His Deputy, Arsène Essomba Eloundou, who had the folder, preferred to pay the debt by cheque to one Patrice Tsimi who, While nile did not recognize as its representative. Dayas Mounoume who thought everything was settled no longer intervened in the matter.

Therefore, he was accused of negligence and subsequently convicted before disappearing like Dieudonné Ambassa Zang, a former Minister of Paul Biya, who was accused of having diverted money intended for the construction of the second bridge over the Wouri River.