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During the year 2017, Balossa Blaise was the accomplice of the legendary poacher known as Benz participating in many elephant hunting expeditions in Djaka leading to the killing of elephants with ivory weighing respectively 32 and 57 kgs and estimated at XAF 800,000 (eight hundred thousand).

Sombo Celestin and Ebete Romuald are two Congolese citizens living in Souanke. In Juillet 2017, Sombo Ceslestin went to Ebete Romuald’s house and took a hunting weapon (type caliber 12) with the autorisation of the latter to carry out a hunting expedition.

In January 2017, Eboto, a Congolese from DRC, resident in Pokola was visited by his countrymen named Benz and Djuna coming to propose him a big hunting expedition. Due to financial difficulties he accepted the offer. Armed with a war weapon and ammunition, the three people entered the forest and Eboto Willy was the carrier.

On January 05, 2018, Edenga Justin met with Arsene Adzele while he was entering the village Gol who asked him to find a buyer of ivory tusks. On January 09, Edanga Juscar went to Souanke where he met with Mr. Sarli who ordered ivory tusks and then he came back to Gol and told Adzele Arsene that he found a potential buyer.

In March 2018, one named as Ndourou and others after a hunting expedition and having no means to move the ivory and weapons used to hunt decided to keep them at Edanga Joseph’s place.

In February 2018, Zebengou Bavant, chief of the village Douma 1 organized a big hunting expedition with the participation of a renown hunter Ekombi Amino assisted by his son Mbela Georges and his brother-in-law Mbomo Felix.

In 2008, while his wife was pregnant, Kazouna Cyprien proposed to Essoula Idriss to carry a hunting expedition for him to get some money to cover the delivery of his wife. During the hunting expedition, they came across a small dead elephant and they removed the two small tusks that they sold to XAF 40,000 (forty thousand).

In May 2019, Golom Raphael was approached by one known as Didier who offered to sell him three ivory tusks. He then bought one tusk for XAF 300,000, after which investigations were opened against him and the file fowarded to the state prosecutor’s chambers and later to the court for trial.

In July 2016, Gonock Evounanga Edgard, Béranger Mesong and Ziba went 65 kms from Sembe on the Ngbala road in possession of a war weapon with the objective to cross Dja river on the Cameroon side in order to look for a hunter. They got in contact with Minda Xavier who immediately accepted to put his know-how at their disposal.

In December 2017, Kouatou Issofa associated himself with Konfo Etienne Armand in order to acquire ivory tusks. Konfo Etienne knew already one poacher called Mouchina, whose when contacted asked him to go to a place called Mboua.