Country
Territorial subdivision
Court
Type of court
Seat of court
Ouesso
Court jurisdiction
Date of opinion
2010
Abstract
Ngouanda Brice told Malo-Malo Leonard that he could earn a lot of money if he agreed to kill elephants with Ngouanda Brice's war weapon, which the latter kept carefully. Malo-Malo then asked Ngouanda to give him the weapon, which he did and Malo-Malo used the weapon to kill an elephant.
Language of document
French
Reference number
No. 063/2010
Charges
Killing, complicity of killing of a fully protected species and possession of a war weapon and ammunition.
Species
Transnational
No
Decision
Malo-Malo Leonard and Ngouanda Brice were found guilty of the charges against them.
Appealed
No
Penalty
Malo-Malo Leonard and Ngouanda Brice were sentenced to 12 (twelve) months firm imprisonment and to XAF 1,200,000 (one million two hundred thousand) each; The accused were sentenced to jointly pay the sum of XAF 1,000,000 (one million) for civil damages and to pay the costs at the sum of XAF 200,000 (two hundred thousand) at the rate of 100,000 (one hundred thousand) each; The duration of the imprisonment in default of payment was set to 15 (fifteen) days for the recovery of court fees, 1 (one) month for the recovery of fines and to 3 (three) months for the recovery of civil damages.
Legislation cited
Law No. 37-2008 of 28 November 2008 on wildlife and protected areas