| Anti-Corruption Commission has filed four indictments for various offences under the Anti-Corruption Act 2000 as amended .
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed four indictments for various offences under the Anti-Corruption Act 2000 as amended against the following public officers:
The Commission has also indicted Alex Sesay of 71 Low Cost Housing Estate Kissy for impersonating an ACC officer.
The indictment filed against Cecil Stevens Ansumana contains 85 (Eighty Five) counts alleging misappropriation of public funds amounting to Le 25,568,537 (Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred and Sixty-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty-Seven Leones) contrary to section 12(1) of the said Anti-Corruption Act 2000 as amended.
The former Establishment Secretary, Aiah Chrispin Ngaujah and Samuel Kainde Huggins, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youths and Sports have been charged with misappropriation of public funds amounting to Le 89,618,738 (Eighty-Nine Million Six Hundred and Eighteen thousand and seven hundred and thirty-eight leones), contrary to section 12(1) of the Anti- Corruption Act2000 as amended.
In the case of Magistrate Adrian Joscelyne Fisher, the Commission filed two separate indictments. The first is a 20 (Twenty) count indictment for misappropriation of public funds contrary to section 12(1) of the ACA 2000 as amended. In the second indictment he faces a 2 (Two) count of Soliciting and/or Accepting an advantage, contrary to section 8 of the Anti- Corruption Act 2000 as amended.
Alex Sesay has been charged with two counts of impersonating an ACC officer contrary to section 76 of the Anti-Corruption Act 2008. Mr. Sesay allegedly approached the Managing Director of Mercury International Company and the Principal of the Laura Dove Vocational School falsely claiming that he was an Officer of the ACC in an attempt to obtain favours.
All Accused persons will soon be arraigned before the High Court.
Meanwhile the Commission has decided not to proffer charges against Magistrate Abubakar Binneh Kamara due to insufficiency of evidence.
20th February 2009
Ivan Ajibola Thomas
Director, Public Education and Outreach Department
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