Nigeria’s football star, Nwankwo Kanu has lost N1.4 billion in his hotel business and the Managing Director of the hotel, Mr. Ayoola Gam Ikon, 49, has been arrested and charged to court for the alleged fraud.
Operatives of the Inspector
General of Police Monitoring Unit arrested Ikon, the managing director
of Hardley Suites Limited situated at Waziri Ibrahim Crescent, off Elsie
Femi Pearse Street, Victoria Island, Lagos southwest Nigeria, for allegedly stealing the N1.4 billion belonging to the hotel and suites owned by Kanu.
They were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s court on a 19-count charge of felony to wit, obtaining money under false pretence.
The police alleged in charge suit No. K/8/2013 that Ikon was arrested
following a complaint by the management of Hardley Suites Limited,
Nwankwo Kanu and Ogbonna Kanu, that Ikon between 2005 and 2012 allegedly
defrauded them of the sum of about N1.4 billion on the pretence of
using the money to expand the
existing facilities of the hotel by constructing and furnishing of
additional blocks of 30 suites and conference facilities, but he
allegedly failed to use the money for the purpose and allegedly converted the money to his personal use.
He was also alleged to have forged a special resolution purportedly made
by the board of directors of Hardley Suites Limited to obtain loans of
N187 million, N50 million and N493 million from Skye Bank Plc without
authorization.
The offences, the accused allegedly committed, according to the
prosecutor A.M. Animashaun, contravenes sections 8 (a) 1 (a) of the
advanced fee fraud and other fraud related offences Act 2006 as
applicable in Lagos State.
The accused pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
The defendants were, however, moved to Ikoyi Prison, Lagos pending when they would fulfil the bail conditions.
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