Man tried for accusing Zinox Computers of fraud wants ex-Police IG, Arase, probed
An Ibadan-based businessman, Joseph Benjamin, has petitioned the
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, demanding the probe of the
immediate past IG, Solomon Arase.
Mr. Benjamin, who is accused of lying to the police, after he accused Zinox Computers of contract fraud, accuses Mr. Arase of criminal conspiracy in his travail.
Mr. Benjamin is currently standing trial before Justice Peter Kekemeke of Court 14, Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja, on a one-count charge of “false petitioning” with intention to mislead in a case of alleged identity theft, impersonation and criminal conversion of contracts.
In the petition filed on his behalf by his lawyers, Bob James & Co., Mr. Benjamin, who is the managing director/chief executive of Citadel Oracle Concept Limited, accused Mr. Arase of conspiring to fabricate false evidence the police are using to try him, while shielding the real offenders in a N170.3 million fraud against his company.
In 2013, Mr. Benjamin had petitioned Mr. Arase, then Deputy Inspector General in charge of Force Criminal Investigation Bureau, after his company uncovered that some top officials of Zinox Technologies Limited and its subsidiary, Technology Distributions Limited (TD) had conspired with their allies to commit the fraud.
In the petition, Mr. Benjamin said the suspects had impersonated his firm, by cloning its official headed paper, with which they used in issuing an acceptance letter to the FIRS for the supply of 668 computers at N170.3 million
Although investigations by the SFU of the Nigerian Police Force have since 2014 been concluded and a prima-facie case established against the suspects, prosecution was stalled.
Following his appointment as the IGP in 2015, Mr. Benjamin, on May 8 wrote Mr. Arase, to highlight his company’s frustration in getting the police to transfer the original case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for prosecution of the suspects.
Mr. Benjamin, who is accused of lying to the police, after he accused Zinox Computers of contract fraud, accuses Mr. Arase of criminal conspiracy in his travail.
Mr. Benjamin is currently standing trial before Justice Peter Kekemeke of Court 14, Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja, on a one-count charge of “false petitioning” with intention to mislead in a case of alleged identity theft, impersonation and criminal conversion of contracts.
In the petition filed on his behalf by his lawyers, Bob James & Co., Mr. Benjamin, who is the managing director/chief executive of Citadel Oracle Concept Limited, accused Mr. Arase of conspiring to fabricate false evidence the police are using to try him, while shielding the real offenders in a N170.3 million fraud against his company.
In 2013, Mr. Benjamin had petitioned Mr. Arase, then Deputy Inspector General in charge of Force Criminal Investigation Bureau, after his company uncovered that some top officials of Zinox Technologies Limited and its subsidiary, Technology Distributions Limited (TD) had conspired with their allies to commit the fraud.
In the petition, Mr. Benjamin said the suspects had impersonated his firm, by cloning its official headed paper, with which they used in issuing an acceptance letter to the FIRS for the supply of 668 computers at N170.3 million
Although investigations by the SFU of the Nigerian Police Force have since 2014 been concluded and a prima-facie case established against the suspects, prosecution was stalled.
Following his appointment as the IGP in 2015, Mr. Benjamin, on May 8 wrote Mr. Arase, to highlight his company’s frustration in getting the police to transfer the original case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for prosecution of the suspects.
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