Three others imprisoned with Jean Marcel Dayas Mounoume

Arsène Eloundou Essomba, former Deputy Director General of the Autonomous Port of Douala (Pad), Abel Manguieb Agbor, former CFO of Pad and Jean Marcel Dayas Mounoume, former Director General of the Pad, were sentenced each to a term of 15 years in prison.

Patrice Tsimi Enyengue, trader, is the only accused slapped with the heaviest sentence of 20 years imprisonment.

The revelation made late in the evening of Friday, July 3, 2015 to Cameroon-Info.Net by a source in the Special Criminal Court (TCS) in Yaounde confirmed: Jean Marcel Dayas Mounoume and three co-defendants were sentenced to long prison terms.

The sentences were handed down Friday, July 3, 2015.

Thus comes the epilogue of a case of misappropriation of public funds triggered about six years ago in Douala, the economic capital. In the folder of the Public Ministry / Autonomous Port of Douala against Jean Marcel Dayas Mounoume and Company, they were accused of embezzling a sum of nearly FCFA 459 million, under the pretext of a settlement of debt to the company White Nile Corporation (WNC).

"Of the four defendants, only two were present on Friday in court when the judge rendered his verdict. They are Patrice Tsimi Enyengue, incarcerated the longest, and Arsene Essomba Eloundou, who appeared free as the other two were absent. The two who were in court were immediately taken to Kondengui prison. We went for Jean Marcel Dayas at home as we had no news of Abel Manguieb Agbor," says a source close to the case.

Despite the verdict of the Special Criminal Court, the case is far from over as they will spend extra time before the Supreme Court in Yaounde. Their counsel have decided to lodge an appeal on Monday, July 6, 2015.