Anti-corruption drive: Traceability of recovered funds under scrutiny
According to the latest report from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Conac), the Debt Recovery Company (SRC) and the Special Criminal Court (TCS) jointly collected 5.8 billion CFA francs in claims and damages for the 2025 fiscal year, marking a 3.6% increase over the 5.6 billion CFA francs recorded a year earlier.
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The institutional recovery architecture rests on the SRC, which channeled 5.4 billion CFA francs, while the TCS formalized restitutions from the corpus delicti amounting to 382.1 million CFA francs. Analysis of the recovered claims reveals a heavy concentration on two major public entities: the Crédit Foncier du Cameroun (CFC), for 2.9 billion CFA francs, and the Société Immobilière du Cameroun (SIC), with 1.8 billion CFA francs. These monetary flows materialize the resolution of long-standing financial disputes, although their effective reintegration into the national budgetary circuit remains poorly documented.
To address this financial governance challenge, the Conac, under the chairmanship of Dieudonné Massi Gams, reiterates the creation of an ad hoc structure dedicated to monitoring and tracing reintroduced funds. The objective is to remove these exceptional revenues from the general accounting framework in order to directly finance priority investment programs.
This restitution dynamic unfolds against a backdrop of worsening financial prejudice suffered by the state. The Conac's 2025 assessment puts consolidated losses linked to mismanagement, embezzlement, and extortion at 6.27 billion CFA francs, up from 4.061 billion CFA francs in 2024.
Meanwhile, the flow of citizen whistleblowing has contracted to 2,561 administrative and digital reports, down from 10,520 in the previous period.
In terms of the sectoral breakdown of reported offenses, the risk map highlights three particularly vulnerable perimeters. Land affairs account for 20.39% of recorded complaints, concentrating the bulk of grievances on the spoliation of the state's private domain and the establishment of fraudulent property titles. The civil service accounts for 15.26% of reports, primarily characterized by the undue collection of salaries and illicit maneuvers observed during competitive examinations. Finally, public financial management totals 14.56% of listed cases, exposing persistent weaknesses in public procurement and state expenditure execution channels.
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