FCFA 1.2 billion scam discovered at CNPS

An embezzlement case was detected during the third technical seminar of the International Social Security Association held in Yaoundé on August 1, 2015, said Le Quotidien in its Friday, August 21, 2015 issue.

The Director General of the CNPS, Alain Noel Olivier Mekulu Mvondo Akame, said “a special operation of checking the authenticity of civil status documents submitted by our customers has helped us discover fraud, worth more than FCFA 1.2 billion, covering more than 33,000 insured persons (about 7% of all registered workers in 2010).”

According to the DG of CNPS “during the 2014 financial year, a payroll tax adjustment emerged at several billion FCFA in Cameroon.”

“The remarks of DG alluded to many established company showed that, on December 31, 2014, an overall debt representing social contributions amounted to just around FCFA 70 billion. Of these companies, 148 are state companies, including the debt of the social security contributions amounted to FCFA 55 billion."

"It involves CAMTEL, CRTV, Campost, Palais des Congrès, Hôtel des députés, LABOGENIE, SEMRY, Government Printing Office, ARMP, Sopecam, Sodecoton, SODECAO," said the newspaper.

To remedy this situation, the CNPS introduced the online statement of wages by employers. Just as the online consultation provided the individual account, there is an annual regulatory control and monitoring by the composite ratio. This allowed the CNPS to see its insured increase by 35.39%, 15.25% employers and a recovery of 9.12%.

For the DG of CNPS, these measures have "recovered nearly FCFA 950 million." He also announced "having established the identification of beneficiaries to avoid fraud by replacing it with a computerized management system, banking services for payments and reduction of case processing time. It includes an implementation of an anti-fraud device in 2013.”