On Friday, May 02, 2025, the Court of First Instance of First Class in Cotonou judged a young lady, a cashier in a bank operating in Benin for acts of embezzlement to the detriment of the bank that employed her.

During the criminal hearing in flagrante delicto at the Cotonou First Class Court of First Instance, the cashier was accused of embezzling an estimated sum of 9 million CFA francs. At the stand, she did not deny the facts. Of the amount in question, she has undertaken to repay and remains owed the sum of 5,700,000 CFA francs to the bank. At the hearing last Friday, she brought a sum of 2,800,000 CFA francs. Faced with his desire to repay his debts with the financial institution, the defense asks the judge to grant him provisional release. This is to allow him to repay the rest of the money. The judge ordered the provisional release of the accused in exchange for the payment of a bond of 500,000 CFA francs