Cameroon:Former Finance minister loses valises of bank notes to robbers

state cashier disappears with about CFA 3b

Although nobody has molested Meva' a m'Eboutou, former Cameroon's minister of finance (from 2001-2004) whose name is listed among the 59 serving and former public officials that the government is reported to have given to the American FBI to investigate their assets abroad, the Herald newspaper reports that the former minister recently lost valises of bank notes to robbers.
That Meva, naively welcomed the robbers who were disguised as police agents and told him they had come to search his village home at Nkoltoutou in the South province.

Apparently on a tip-off, “the men arrived at 3am on 22 August in a car with an SN number plate commonly known to be used by the police. They easily lifted away three hefty valises believed to be containing bank notes which could have amounted to billions of FCFA”.
Though the former minister quickly issued a statement declaring that the valises contained but valuable items and clothes many wounder why the former minister would keep his clothes folded in valises instead of hang them in a ward robe.

Similarly, the paper reported that Toukou Ibrahim, cashier of the main treasury in the country's economic capital of Douala has disappeared estimated with sum of between 800 million and 3 billion FCFA.

That the paymaster, Edou Olo’o Jean Louis, who has been fired from his post and now helping police in their investigations alerted the police and his Yaounde authorities of the incident after Toukou Ibrahim, reportedly dropped the key of his to the paymaster last 20^th August.
Though the whereabout of Toukou is unknown, the Herald say Police sources suspect he boarded a flight for Paris. And that the theft was staged via infiltration into the treasury data bank by staffers who used their colleagues’ identities.