Sparrow Hawk: Three High Profile Personalities Arrested for Alleged Financial Malpractices

Three high profile personalities including a former minister have been detained in Yaoundé for alleged financial malpractices. They were hawked by the famous anti-corruption operation "Sparrow Hawk”.  Reports say Louis Max Ohandja, former Secretary of State to the Minister of Public Works, in charge of roads, Jean William Sollo, former boss of a public company and Bruno Bekolo Ebe, former rector of the University of Douala, were placed Wednesday night in custody in  Kondengui, the central prison of Yaounde .

They are accused of transforming state funds into private pockets, but according what we gathered the amounts will be known only after the judicial proceeding will be opened. It is said that the Special Criminal Court (TCS), a judicial body that indicted the three personalities is working round the clock interrogating other accomplices.

 William Sollo, according to the same source, is subject to a procedure for alleged misappropriation of funds within the Cameroon water utilities corporation (Camwater). From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Sollo managed this public company, which recently took over water distribution service from a private company.

 Bekelo Ebe is suspected of financial malpractices at the University of Douala. In 2014, the Fiscal and Budgetary Disciplinary Committee, an official investigation unit on governance issues in public administrations and public companies, declared Bekolo Ebe debtor of the sum of 2.4 billion FCFA

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