(Business in Cameroon) - The National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC) of Cameroon has just publicly released its 2013 activities report. According to Dieudonné Massi Gams, the prelate in charge of this institution, 2013 was a good year for those involved in this phenomenon. "2013 saw the evolution and sophistication of corruption techniques through various forms of cheating which are increasing and poisoning the social and economic activity", he declared.

Not one sector was spared, the president of CONAC stressed. He then proceeded to mention in no particular order: generating counterfeit account statements, payment against issuance of account statements, inflating civil servants' salaries and pension funds, issuance of counterfeit driving licences, overcharging services, or the opaque operations of the Land Freight Management Bureau (BGFT), which has become, according to CONAC's president, "a State within the State".

Many of these practices deprive the Cameroonian Public Treasury of important revenues. Thus the actions of some managers of the Internal Revenue Authority, who have mastered the "issuance of counterfeit licences, the production of counterfeit stickers and the issuance of counterfeit legal stamps through counterfeit stamp printers", CONAC indicates in its report.

Based on the 2,758 denunciations CONAC received and the corruption acts listed in the 2013 activities report, this institution recommends to the State, among other measures, "the implementation of the national strategy to fight against corruption throughout the country, the adoption of an anti-corruption law and the implementation of the provisions of article 66 on the disclosure of property and assets".