Country
Territorial subdivision
Court
Type of court
Seat of court
Ouesso
Court jurisdiction
Date of opinion
2012
Abstract
In March 2012, Egone-Tom Yves provided one known as Sylvain with a war weapon in order to kill elephant and give him back the ivory tusks and meat. Sylvain killed one elephant and removed the tusks and some meat. Sylvain was owing XAF 61,000 (sixty-one thousand) to Elenvah Joseph and therefore gave the latter the two ivory tusks that Elenvah sold to one known as Ngoun-Hamadou at XAF 20,000 (twenty thousand) to get reimbursed.
Language of document
French
Reference number
No. 047/2012
Charges
Complicity of killing of a totally protected specie (elephant), illicit trade in ivory tusks.
Species
Money value
XAF 20,000
Transnational
No
Decision
Egone-Tom Yves was found guilty of complicity for the killing a totally protected specie (elephant) Elenvah Joseph was found guilty of illicit trade in ivory tusks.
Appealed
No
Penalty
Egone-Tom Yves was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, XAF 1,200,000 (one million two hundred thousand) as fines and XAF 150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand) as court fees; Elenvah Joseph was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, XAF 120,000 (one hundred and twenty thousand) as fines and XAF 50,000 (fifty thousand) as court fees; The execution of the imprisonment term of both was suspended; Egone-Tom Yves and Elenvah Joseph were sentenced to pay jointly XAF 1,000,000 (one million) as damages The imprisonment in default of payment was fixed to fifteen days for the recovery of court fees, one month for fines and three months for damages.