Former defense minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o.
By Staff
Sergeant Michelle Gonzale
Former
defence minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, once tipped to succeed Cameroon
President Paul Biya, has been charged with diverting public funds and
corruption.
"Mr Mebe Ngo'o is suspected of diverting
public money and corruption," an official of the Special Criminal Tribunal
told the French news agency, AFP.
Mebe Ngo'o was put in provisional detention on
Friday and sent to the central prison in the capital Yaounde, the official
added.
"He was locked up along with the deputy
director of a bank, a Treasury inspector and an army colonel," he said.
A fifth person was still being questioned in
the same investigation.
The former
minister was summoned Tuesday to the tribunal, which deals with major
corruption cases, and detained.
Mebe Ngo'o was sacked from the government last
year where he served from 2015 as transport minister after spending the six
previous years at defence.
Cameroonian
journalist Jules Koum Koum, who died in a road accident, had in 2010
investigated an alleged over-billing scandal for military uniforms at the
defence ministry when Mebe Ngo'o was minister.
Before
joining the government, he had led the police force and run the presidency's
civil office.
Source:RFI
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