The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), has asked the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to arrest Messrs Fidelis and Noel Anosike for questioning over their role in the illegal purchase and stealing of Daily Times assets estimated at about N3bn.
According to Adoke, inviting the Anosikes for questioning was in line with the constitution.
The AGF has just filed two fresh criminal charges against the Anosike brothers and others at the Federal High Court in Lagos and the Lagos State High Court.
In a letter with reference number DPP/ADV: 039/11/187 and dated April 21, 2011, Adoke stated that the arrest of the accused persons was important in order to obtain their statements so as to diligently prosecute the matter.
According to the letter, which was signed on the AGF’s behalf by a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Akin Akintewe, the AGF said the suspects had been investigated by the Special Fraud Unit of the police while a 21-count charge had been filed against them, “but a particular aspect of the investigation was omitted which is obtaining the statements of the accused persons.”
According to the fresh charges before the Lagos High Court, the Anosike brothers and their company, Folio Communications Limited, were alleged to have made false representation to the Bureau of Public Enterprises that they had means to acquire majority shares of Daily Times.
But the Anosike brothers were said to have mortgaged the assets of the newspaper company and even sold some of the properties to realise the acquisition of the said shares.
The offence is contrary to Section 8 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act of 1995 as amended and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the same Act.
But in the fresh charge before the Federal High Court, the Anosike brothers and others were alleged to have conspired to illegally siphon several billions of naira from the coffers of Daily Times.
They were alleged to have fraudulently obtained N100m from Senator Ikechukwu Obiora under the pretence that the money would be used to acquire a printing factory for Daily Times.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
Home
Unlabelled
AGF asks Ringim to arrest Anosike brothers over Daily Times
AGF asks Ringim to arrest Anosike brothers over Daily Times
NigerianEye
-
Friday, May 27, 2011
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com