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.
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