Cameroon sues PNC Bank in the US, Kingue Monono, Patrice Nouma implicated

PNC Bank and one of its employees have been accused of negligence in a complaint lodged with the civil court in New Jersey on January 5 by lawyer Roberto Espinosa J Harkavy of Goldman, Goldman & Gerstein, which represents the Permanent Mission of Cameroon to the UN, and their agent, Nganje Kingue Ewumbue Monono. On September 19, 2010, collection agent Kingue Monono opened a bank account with PNC Bank in Manhattan for Cameroon’s Mission to the United Nations. In order to open the account, Monono was required to present his diplomatic passport as ID, and left with the assurances of PNC Bank that only he would be able to receive disbursements and account statements. “Yet on November 21, 2010, Monono realized that someone had obtained from the bank confidential information and documents on the account for the Permanent Mission of Cameroon to the UN,” the complaint alleges, continuing that “Monono repeatedly asked for an explanation from PNC Bank for this leakage of information, but met with a stone wall”

Patrice Nouma, stepped out of the shadows in a YouTube video posted on May 23, 2014. The video showed off a number of bank records as evidence for Nouma’s charge of misappropriation of funds and money laundering by the Cameroon Mission’s finance controller. The adverse effects of this video on their reputations are what motivated the Mission and Monono to seek redress from PNC Bank for its lack of professionalism. In a letter dated September 5, 2014, addressed to Ambassador Michel Monthé Tomo (seen here on this photo) PNC Bank’s management finally acknowledged that one of its employees had inadvertently provided information on the account opened by Monono to an individual who was not a signatory to the account. The Mission and Kingue Monono has also filed a complaint against Patrice Nouma.

It is vital to include in this report that Cameroon Concord edited some of the statements made by the reporter of USAfricanews.org and has ordered an investigation into the Kingue Monono/Patrice Nouma Affair. We will be bringing to our readers a detail report on our AGBAW-EBAI DEBATE soonest.

Culled from USAfricanews.org