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Actualités of Thursday, 7 May 2015

Source: Cameroon Tribune

Epouhé Case: TCS orders restitution money

During Wednesday's hearing, he was asked that on behalf of me Lydian Eyoum in which the funds requested were to be released to allow the complainant to take possession of his due.

It was a happy outcome for the complainant in the case of Serge Epouhé who opposed Lydian Eyoum and prosecutors. The Special Criminal Court (TCS) delivered its verdict last Wednesday by ordering the accused to return the sum of 60 million 365 880 F Serge Epouhé.

The sentence was handed down Wednesday's hearing in the absence of both parties (defendant and complainant). respondent the court order for the account to be unlocked Me Lydian Eyoum because it is an inheritance. These funds were donated to Serge Epouhé by his late father Jacques Epouhé.

As a reminder of the facts, Ms. Lydian Eyoum was hired by Jacques Epouhé, father of the complainant to her to help recover unpaid premiums by a port company in which he was employed.

The lawyer seized of the case was able to recover the money. After the death of Jacques Epouhé his son became his heir. Unfortunately it was in Europe and arrived in Cameroon when Lydian Me Eyoum was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 25 years in prison for co-accused former Minister of Economy and Finance, Polycarpe Abah Abah and the bailiff, Mr. Baleng Maah that had been paid for "non-established facts."

At this time there the accounts of the lawyer had been blocked with money from the complainant. He then took him several minutes to regain possession of which was rightfully his. And the "soap opera" Serge Epouhè Eyoum against Lydian and the prosecution has ended.