Maître Denise EHOUZOU GANGNITO, Notary in Cotonou will no longer be able to practice this profession. This is the consequence of the decision to which it was subject this Thursday, April 11, 2024.
According to the Council of Ministers which took this sanction, the person concerned has been missing since 2016 after having “seized by mail one of her colleagues with whom she had not established any contact in principle, to instruct him to ensure her interim during his absence “.
According to the Government’s explanations, the office created by Decree No. 97-329 of July 17, 1997 in Cotonou and which it occupied and operated until its disappearance, was the subject of several complaints from its clients.
Faced with this situation, the National Chamber of Notaries of Benin instructed another notary to assess the financial and accounting situation of the Master’s office. Denise EHOUZOU GANGNITO, to manage it provisionally and to consider possible solutions for the continuity of services. The Chamber commissioned an audit of the Study by an accounting firm.
More than a billion CFA francs distracted
According to audit reports on the operation and financial management of the Master’s Office Denise EHOUZOU, ” a total amount of one billion forty-eight million two hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and thirty-two (1,048,293,132) FCFA, belonging to said clients or intended for the Public Treasury, which it has collected due to her status as a notary, but which she must return “, disappeared.
For the Council of Ministers, ” from an ethical and criminal point of view, this is a particularly serious fault in the case of a ministerial officer who was also sufficiently aware of it to the point of being absent for seven (07) years without any explanation. thus hoping to escape the consequences of his actions “.
This is why, to safeguard customer rights, the Council of Ministers on Thursday April 11, 2024:
- has already initiated legal proceedings against her before the Court for the Repression of Economic Offenses and Terrorism (CRIET)
- has decided on a disciplinary level, his dismissal which will be followed by the attribution of the office to another notary.
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