Mr. Goodie Ibru |
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.
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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