Cameroonian businessman Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga charged for the murder of journalist ‘Martinez’ Zogo

March 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Cameroonian businessman Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga has been charged this Saturday in the framework of the investigation into the murder of journalist Arsène Salomon Mbani Zogo, popularly known as ‘Martinez’ and specialized in reporting on corruption in the country.

Amougou Belinga, president of the Anecdote media group and very close to power, entered the Kodengui maximum security prison, in the country’s capital, Yaoundé, this Saturday, after spending 25 days in provisional detention, accused of “complicity in acts of torture” against the journalist, as reported by the company itself in a statement collected by the Cameroonian portal 237 On Line.

It should be remembered that none other than the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Cameroon, Léopold Maxime Eko Eko, and a colonel identified as Justin Danwé, both allegedly involved in an operation to torture and assassinate, are being detained in this case. to the journalist.

‘Martinez’ Zogo, director of the Amplitude FM radio station and head of the “Atasco” program, in which he constantly denounced corruption practices in the country’s capital, was kidnapped on January 17 and his lifeless body was found five days later in what the Cameroonian government described as “the biggest crime against a media figure” in the history of the African country.

So far no one has been formally charged for the reporter’s murder.