The officials of the Société des Huileries du Bénin (SHB), were sentenced to 02 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 CFA francs each, the Court for the Suppression of Economic Offences and Terrorism (CRIET), at the end of a hearing on Thursday, May 16, 2024. They are being sued in a tax fraud case

In pre-trial detention since January 2023, the director general of SHB, the commercial director, and the director of financial affairs, are fixed on their fate in the tax fraud case for which they are being prosecuted before the CRIET Correctional Chamber. They were sentenced, like the freight forwarder, to a sentence of 02 years in prison, and to the payment of 250,000 CFA francs as a fine

According to the decision of the special jurisdiction, the defendants will also have to jointly pay the sum of 600,000 CFA francs to the SHB, which is a civil party. They are being prosecuted for the acts of “false certificates and complicity in false

The case involves a total of 06 people including one woman, prosecuted for “tax evasion, false certificates, breach of trust, breach of trust and corruption in the private sector”.