#Benin - Fight against #Cybercrime: The Special Prosecutor of #CRIET and the Head of #OCRC take stock

2023-04-21 22:13:53

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During a special broadcast this Friday, April 21, 2023 on the national television channel ORTB and relating to cybercrime in Benin, the Special Prosecutor of CRIET, Mario METONOU and Donatien SOKOU, Commissioner of the Central Office for the Repression of Cybercrime (OCRC), took stock of the fight led by the Government of President Patrice TALON against the scourge.

1188 people are detained in different prisons for cybercrime and among them, 114 are awaiting trial. This is what we retain from the statements below of Special Prosecutor METONOU.

« As of today, when I speak to you, we have 1,188 detainees in prisons for acts of cybercrime. I’m talking about both those who have been convicted and those who are awaiting trial. But overall, we have 1,188 detainees in Benin’s prisons for cybercrime.

During the 2020-2021 judicial year, we had 360 convictions for cybercrime issues. The judicial year 2021-2022, we had 451 and as of today, during this judicial year which is still in progress, we are currently at 263 convicted.

This means that we have never lowered the pressure and that we are doing what is necessary to ensure that cybercrime is no longer an economic model that is brandished at young people to make them believe that there is a way to grow, get rich, live off this cybercrime.»

For his part, Donatien SOKOU, Commissioner of the Central Office for the Repression of Cybercrime (OCRC) takes stock of the complaints and the financial damage resulting from acts of Cybercrime.
According to the statements of the Head of the OCRC, during the year 2021, 2031 complaints and a loss of 1,546,436,228 CFA francs were recorded; figures that do not take into account the silent victims who for one reason or another do not file official complaints.

The following year, that is to say in 2022, 2,188 complaints and a loss of 663,544,225 CFA francs. And ” From January 2023 to date, we are already at a loss of 495,456,027 FCFA. These declared damages are suffered by Beninese and foreigners. said Commissioner of the Central Office for the Repression of Cybercrime.

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*J –Marc Aurel AGOSSOU*