The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed 11 counts of fraud
against the former Chairman of Ikeja Hotels Plc, Mr. Goodie Ibru, for
allegedly defrauding the hotel to the tune of N1bn.
A copy
of the charge sheet obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, was filed
before Justice Raliatu Adebiyi of the Lagos Division of the Lagos State
High Court.
Ibru was charged alongside three
companies – Associated Ventures International Limited, IHL Services
Limited and Clearview Investment Limited.
The EFCC, in one of
the counts, alleged that Ibru and his co-suspects conspired amongst
themselves to steal a sum of N867,700,990.00 being the profit due to
Ikeja Hotels Plc, adding that the suspects received the stolen sum
through Starwood Limited, the managers of Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja. The
alleged offence was said to be committed between January and December
2010
In another of the counts, the EFCC alleged that the
suspects, had between June and October 2010, with an intent to defraud,
fraudulently converted to their personal use, a sum of N55,102,485.50
received through Starwood Limited as profit due to the hotel.
The
EFCC further alleged that the suspects, with an intent to defraud,
fraudulently converted to their personal use, various sums received
through Starwood Limited as profit due to the hotel.
EFCC
alleged that the defendants also, with an intent to defraud,
fraudulently converted to their personal use a sum of N27, 508,766.25
sometime in February 2010 – property of Ikeja Hotels Plc which sum was
said to have been received through Clearview Investment Limited as
proceeds of the sale of Ikeja Hotels property.
According to the
anti-graft commission, these alleged offences committed by the suspects
are contrary to sections 516, 370(7)(b) and 9 and 278(1)(b) and 285(8)
and 9(b) 0f the Criminal Code Cap C. 17, Vol. 11, Laws of Lagos State of
Nigeria, 2011.
No date has been fixed for the arraignment of the suspects.
Credit: Punch
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