submission, requesting that his case be examined under the expedited
procedure;
II.3- both the originating application and that for expedited procedure
were served to the defendant on 09/26/2014;
II.4- The Republic of Benin produced a statement of defence on 20
November 2014, a statement on the merit and observations relating to
the application for expedited procedure dated 21 November 2014 all
filed at the Registry of the Court on 04 December 2014;
II.5 The statement of defence was in turn, served to the applicant on 4
December 2014; the latter responded with two conclusions all dated 21
November 2014;
The Republic of Benin closed the trial stage by correspondence dated 22
December 2014 filed at the Registry on 12 January 2015;
II.6- The case was adopted and debated at the external Court Session held
in Bissau (Guinea Bissau) on 23 March 2015. The parties were not
present but wrote requesting the judgment of the case based on their
written submissions;
II.7- The case was reserved for decision delivered in Abuja, the seat of
Court on 23 April 2015;
III ARGUMENTS AND CLAIMS
III.1- The applicant stated that in February 2010, a judicial investigation
was opened at the Economic and Financial Brigade following complaint
from the Minister of Economy and Finances against four illegal fund
investment structures of which ICCServices, having been casually
informed questioned the Deputy acting for the State Prosecutor and
directed him to submit the report terminating the investigation for the
purposes of reporting to the hierarchy, that on 03 March 2010 in
accordance with the directives of the Deputy sent him the report issued
by the Economic and Financial Brigade, that without interruption on the
same day he reported to the Minister of Justice asking what to do, that the
latter did not respond and on 17 May 2010 he instructed the Public
Prosecutor at the Court of First Instance of Abomey Calavi to investigate
ICCServices;
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