Yaounde:Jean Marie ATANGANA MEBARA former Secretary General at the Presidency slammed another 25 years jail sentence
Jean Marie ATANGANA MEBARA former Secretary General at the Presidency has just been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court for embezzling the sum of 5 million dollars,about 2.9 billion francs.
This adds to 15 and 20 years jail sentence in separate verdicts over embezzlement.
This sentence comes when the Human Rights arm of AU asked Cameroon government to pay the former S G 400 million francs as reparation for damages.
Senior Barrister DAVID MAKONGO explains how it will function
hear him "When sentences run concurrently, defendants serve all the sentences at the same time.But when sentences run consecutively, defendants have to finish serving the sentence for one offense before they start serving the sentence for any other offense".
"His lawyers must be smart to ask the judge to allow him serve his recent sentence concurrently with the previous 2. If the judge agrees, he will only spend 25 more years in prison this latest being the highest sentence.The key here is that the lawyer must ask
And the judge in this case has discretionary powers either to agree or deny".
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