A Biya?s Feyman Makes News in the U.S. Justice Department
By Ndzana Seme, TAI 04/23/2004
One year ago, when the world heads of nations were distancing themselves from G. W. Bush after his
invasion of Iraq, an African president showed up to save the embarrassed White House?s honor; his
name, Paul Biya, president of Cameroon, a country then member of the U.N. Security Council, also
known as one of the most corrupted governments in the world.
?Cameroon is an island of stability in that area of Africa,? the US Secretary of State General Colin
Powell declared after a meeting with Paul Biya. ?The United States government will make all possible to
strengthen M. Biya?s government,? he added.
In fact, Paul Biya rules by intimidating or corrupting all his serious opponents. One evidence of it is that
Cameroon, a country the size of France with 16 millions inhabitants, has over 170 political parties, 99
percent of which are parties created by Paul Biya, the owner of the country?s public treasury, who uses
the nation?s tax money for corruption. His false opposition parties entertain the people, giving the
impression that democracy is working in Cameroon.
Behind this circus, Biya and his ruling family clan embezzle public funds, sell off public property to foreign
friends and accomplices, organize gangs to create insecurity to later justify the government?s terror over
a defenseless population, in total impunity.
Consequence, after more than 20 years of Biya dictatorship, the Cameroonian people is identifying itself
with the evils that Biya has imposed. Since his student?s life in the 1950?s in France, his friends have
always been, not the progressives fighting against racism and for the ?negritude? movement, but well
known international crooks and gangsters such as Damase Omgba, a Cameroonian who still comes and
goes in the Champs Elysées.
Being a crook ? the name used there is ?feyman? - has become the best business card in the
Cameroonian society, since president Paul Biya and his ministers have no shame to appear in public with
?feymen?. Even the major opposition party, the Social Democratic Front, has a cell vice-president at the
National Assembly, Kouamou Pierre, representative of the Haut-Nkam division and a former ?feyman?
who allegedly had left many victims in France.
The last event in the Cameroonian ?feymania? world happened in the United States. The U.S.
Department of Justice?s press release below is a complete statement of the facts. The only noticeable
information is that Serge Medjo-Akono is son of Marcel Medjo-Akono, an apparatchick of the
Yaounde dictatorship, current Roving Ambassador in the Etoudi Presidency, direct cousin and member
of Biya?s inner clan family that rules Cameroon.
The son just follows his parents? footsteps. Bush is probably proud of Serge Medjo-Akono?s
performance at Bank of America
An advice to the U.S. Department of justice: if you want to find the criminal Serge Medjo Akono, just
call Paul Biya, the president of Cameroon. The criminal is in the hiding at Mvemeka'a, Paul Biya's village
and second palace../.
U.S. Department of Justice
Roscoe C. Howard, Jr.
United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia, Judiciary Center
555 4th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 28, 2003For Information Contact Public Affairs Channing Phillips (202)514-6933
Federal grand jury charges Bank of America employee with embezzlement of $187,000 and money
laundering
Washington, D.C. - United States Attorney Roscoe C. Howard, Jr. announced that a federal grand jury
today returned a five-count indictment against Serge Medjo-Akono, 39, most recently of Arlington,
Virginia, charging him with bank embezzlement and money laundering. Following the return of the
indictment, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson issued a warrant for the defendant's arrest.
Medjo-Akono is believed to have left the country. If convicted of the charges, Medjo-Akono faces
approximately three years in prison under the federal sentencing guidelines.
According to the Indictment, Serge Medjo-Akono was employed at the Bank of America as a client
services specialist from May 1998 until August 2002. As part of his job, Medjo-Akono was assigned to
handle the banking needs of embassies, diplomats, and embassy officers and employees and assisted
customers in such duties as: opening new accounts; handling banking transactions; arranging for the
various methods of deposits and savings (such as certificates of deposit); and refunding money to cover
fees, if appropriate. In order to service his banking clients, Medjo-Akono had the ability to transfer
money among Bank of America bank accounts by using a unique bank identifier and a password.
The Indictment alleges that from January 2001 to August 2002, Medjo-Akono embezzled approximately
$187,267 from the Bank of America by taking money without authorization from customers' and Bank of
America's accounts and cashing a certificate of deposit belonging to another. In particular,
Medjo-Akono stole from the Bank of America, and from accounts belonging to an individual and an
embassy. Medjo-Akono used third- party accounts to disguise the theft. He took money from the victim
accounts and either deposited the money into bank accounts that he himself controlled or into third-party
accounts from which he then transferred money into accounts he controlled. He also fraudulently
deposited a certificate of deposit belonging to a victim into a bank account which he controlled. Later,
when a victim complained of the theft, Medjo-Akono stole money to partially repay the victims.
In announcing today's indictment, U.S. Attorney Howard commended the work of Special Agent Patrick
J. Gallop, Jr., Auditor Nicholas Novak and legal assistant April Peeler and Assistant United States
Attorney Virginia Cheatham who is prosecuting the case.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of criminal laws.
Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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