In Chad, a new twist in the financial scandal that has shaken Chad’s hydrocarbons company for several weeks. An employee of the company has just lodged a complaint against Orabank, the banking establishment through which the scandal happened, because, according to him, his identity documents were used to withdraw money without his knowledge.
With our correspondent in Ndjamena, Madjiasra Nako
It is from Cameroon, where he is for medical reasons, that Dawyo Ngrabé Ndoh, former chief of staff of the general manager of the Chadian hydrocarbons company, discovers that he is a signatory on an account at Orabank, where more than 2 billion CFA francs [environ 3 millions d’euros].
Verification made, a copy of his passport was used by third parties to withdraw money from the account of the company that employs him. Like him, several employees of Chad Hydrocarbons Company were victims of the same practice.
He then filed a complaint Thursday, July 14 at the court of first instance of Ndjamena against Orabank for “ misuse of personal data “.
This complaint complicates the situation of this bank, whose general manager Mamadou Bass is one of the suspects for embezzlement of more than 20 billion CFA francs [environ 30 millions d’euros] oil revenues and has been in preventive detention for several weeks.