FCFA 100 mln disappear from CAMPOST

Two former executives of the Cameroon Postal Services appeared before the Special Criminal Court last week. They are judge for the disappearance of the money.

Cyrille Jacques Mbazomo and Emmanuel Ndoutoumou are both former executives of the Cameroon Postal Services (CAMPOST) implicated in the disappearance of the sum of FCFA 100 million from the company. On April 15, they attended their first hearing at the Special Criminal Court (SCC).

The first, Cyrille Jacques Mbazomo, who at that time was on duty at Kribi as postmaster, pleaded not guilty. Yet as indicated in the edition of the Kalara newspaper of April 20, 2016 “He is particularly criticized for the diversion of the money.” The second, Emmanuel Ndoutoumou was answering to the complicity of the 100 million CFA Francs as former provincial chief service now regional chief in Ebolowa.

“He pleaded guilty to the surprise of his lawyer. He confirmed that he recognized the charges against him, including the provision of a document to his co-accused that allowed the alleged diversion of 100 million francs, “the newspaper reported.

In fact, this case goes back to September 7, 2015. The CAMPOST in that time had an operation called “deflation boxes” (dégonflement des caisses in French). It was about recipients of the post to send to the hierarchy the amounts collected during a period.

As part of this transaction, Cyrille Jacques Mbanzomo paid his superior who was passing by Kribi the sum of FCFA 100 million. “The supervisor allegedly told Mr. Mbanzomo it was an emergency and that the disbursement operation would be regularized the next day,” says the newspaper.

Only that the next day, the CAMPOST service of Kribi underwent crates control operation. To believe the elements of the case, Mr. Mbanzomo explained to the story of the day before to the controllers, without yet receiving the document from his superior Emmanuel Ndoutoumou. Reached by telephone, the said superior reassured the controllers and sent the document attesting the receipt of the money.

Except that the monitoring mission did not have any record of that money in the coffers of CAMPOST. The case was referred to the 3 and 4 May 2016.