Following the adjournment on Friday, 21st June, Charles Metouck and Ebong Ngolle, Former General Manager and Board chair of SONARA will have to appear at the Special Criminal Court on Tuesday, July 25, 2019.
The matter was adjourned for the prosecution to reply to the application tabled by the counsel of Mr. Ebong Ngolle, who demanded for the examination of the physical and mental state of their client.
The Defence team cited section 371 of the Criminal Procedure Code to substantiate their point.
Charles Metouck and his alleged accomplices are being charged with embezzling the sum of 100 billion Francs CFA during their tenure as General Manager of the National Oil Refinery Corporation.
A Limbe Court of First Instance had on Wednesday April 24, 2013, slammed Charles Metouck to 9-years, 9-months in jail for trespassing and destroying documents of the corporations.
An appeal by his lawyers was turned down and he was transferred to Yaoundé prison following the sentence.
