(Ecofin Agency) - Around 2 billion FCFA. That is the amount reported to have been embezzled by the former Managing Director of Aéroports du Cameroon (ADC), Roger Ntongo Onguéné, and his co-defendants between 2003 and 2007. Charged with “participation in public funds misappropriation, falsification of banking and business documents, evidence fabrication and direct conflict of interest”, the former head of ADC was just sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.

This is the third conviction the former Managing Director of ADC receives since his removal from the position on 15 June 2009. Sent to the Kondengui central prison of Yaoundé in 2010, Roger Ntongo Onguéné was first convicted to 12 years, for embezzling 350 million FCFA at the time he was still the head of the company.

In 2013, Cameroon’s justice pronounced another sentence condemning him to 20 years in prison. This time, ADC’s Director General had been found guilty of misappropriating 175 million FCFA through fictitious public markets.

With these three condemnations, Roger Ntongo Onguéné is presently one of the major clients of the hawk operation which was launched in 2006 by Cameroon’s president to hunt all public funds embezzlers. Since the operation began, many former managing directors, ministers and even a former prime minister were fished.