The Special Prosecutor of the Court for the Suppression of Economic Crimes and Terrorism (CRIET) gave, during a special program organized on national television on Friday, April 21, 2023, the figures on cybercrime cases examined by the jurisdiction in 2020 & agrave; this day.

According to the estimate of Prosecutor Mario Metonou, 1188 people are currently in prison for cybercrime. According to him, for the 2020-2021 judicial year, 360 sentences were pronounced. Criet convicted 451 people for cybercrime and in 2023, which is still ongoing, 263 defendants have already been convicted for the same acts. Similarly, law enforcement from the police station in the second district of Cotonou arrested 20 suspected cybercriminals on Friday, April 21, 2023 in a house located in the Lomnava district in Akpakpa. 19.6 million CFA francs and 3170 Euros were

En réalité, e In 2021, 2,031 complaints were registered for damage estimated at 1,546,436,228 FCFA. The competent services engaged in the fight against cybercrime worked on 2,188 complaints for harm of 663,54,225 FCFA in 2022. There is already an estimated loss of 495 456,027 FCFA for the year 2023