Cameroon leader pardons French lawyer jailed for graft

Cameroonian President Paul Biya has pardoned a French lawyer serving a 25-year sentence for stealing one point five million euros from public funds. 

Mr Biya said in a statement read on state radio that Lydienne Yen-Ayoum, a Cameroonian who acquired French nationality after marrying a Frenchman, would no longer have to serve the remainder of her sentence. 

Arrested in January 2008, she was sentenced to 25 years in jail in September 2014 and has so far spent eight years in prison. 

The Supreme Court last year upheld the sentence but Yen-Ayoum has always proclaimed her innocence.  


SOURCE: NEWS24