{"id":3121,"date":"2016-10-13T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2016-10-13T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:46:18","slug":"alleged-n1-8billion-fraud-goodie-ibru-you-are-a-thief-conman-fraudster-efcc-says-stop-hiding-we-will-get-you-anywhere-you-are-reveals-you-conspired-to-steal-the-sum-of-n867-7-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/alleged-n1-8billion-fraud-goodie-ibru-you-are-a-thief-conman-fraudster-efcc-says-stop-hiding-we-will-get-you-anywhere-you-are-reveals-you-conspired-to-steal-the-sum-of-n867-7-m\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLEGED N1.8BILLION FRAUD: &#8216;Goodie Ibru: You Are a Thief, Conman &#038; Fraudster&#8217;-EFCC &#8230;Says &#8221;Stop Hiding, We Will Get You Anywhere You Are&#8217; * Reveals: &#8216;You Conspired to Steal the sum of N867.7 million, property of Ikeja Hotels Plc&#8217; * PLUS How he Squandered Funds in Sheraton Hotels, Federal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>ALLEGED N1.8BILLION FRAUD:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">&#8216;Goodie Ibru: You Are a Thief, Conman &amp; Fraudster&#8217;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">-EFCC<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>&#8230;Says &#8221;Stop Hiding, We Will Get You Anywhere You Are&#8217;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>* Reveals: &#8216;You Conspired to S<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">teal the sum of N867.7 million, property of Ikeja Hotels Plc&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>* PLUS How he Squandered Funds in Sheraton Hotels, Federal Palace <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>BY SHAKIRU AHMED\/<i>ANTI-GRAFT REPORTER<\/i>, ABUJA<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Goodie-Ibru-final-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3122\" src=\"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Goodie-Ibru-final-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"goodie-ibru-final-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>THE SUPPOSED good image of Goodie Ibru, a top hotelier magnate and businessman in Nigeria has turned into tatters over his accusation of allegedly stealing a staggering sum of N1.8billion in properties and cash belonging to Ikeja Hotels Plc, including &#8216;stock market fraud&#8217;. Goodie was slammed 11-count charge for money-laundering, theft and stealing by <\/span><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Just yesterday, EFCC declared Goodie wanted for alleged capital market fraud, money laundering, and diversion of funds.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a<span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> statement signed by the Head, Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said the businessman was declared wanted for many reasons, and asked Nigerians who knew his whereabouts to report to the commission. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It was not immediately clear why the commission declared Ibru wanted after it had slammed him and three other firms with an 11-count charge in connection with conspiracy and diversion of N1.8 billion property of Ikeja Hotels Plc. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The firms listed in the suit marked as LD\/1711C\/2015 are Associated Ventures International Limited, IHL Services Limited and Clearview Investment Limited. According to the charge endorsed by counsel to the anti-graft agency, A.B.C. Ozioko, Ibru and the firms, between January and December, 2010, allegedly conspired amongst themselves to steal by fraudulently converting the sum of N867.7 million, property of Ikeja Hotels Plc. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ozioko said the offence is contrary to section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap C.17, Vol.11 Laws of Lagos State. The accused were also charged with intent to defraud and fraudulently converting for personal use the same amount between the same period.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Another source in EFCC said the anti-graft agency confirmed that Goodie is seeing allegedly as a \u201cthief, conman and fraudster\u201d for his capital market scam, looting of Sheraton, Federal Palace hotel and Ikeja hotels. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>His words: \u201cWe are looking for him all over the place. He can only run, he cannot hide. We will surely arrest him soon.\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLEGED N1.8BILLION FRAUD: &#8216;Goodie Ibru: You Are a Thief, Conman &amp; Fraudster&#8217;-EFCC &#8230;Says &#8221;Stop Hiding, We Will Get You Anywhere You Are&#8217; * Reveals: &#8216;You Conspired to Steal the sum of N867.7 million, property of Ikeja Hotels Plc&#8217; * PLUS How he Squandered Funds in Sheraton Hotels, Federal Palace BY SHAKIRU AHMED\/ANTI-GRAFT REPORTER, ABUJA THE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}