Sunday, December 21, 2008 By Kieron Wood
A Nigerian conman who was deported from Ireland has set up a political party in Britain, and plans to field candidates in next year�s European elections.

Andre John-Salakov has registered the PLC Party with an address in Rotterdam. According to Britain�s electoral commission, Salakov plans to run candidates for election in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as in the European elections. Salakov is listed as party leader, nominating officer and campaigns officer, while the treasurer is his partner, Wendy Wong. On the party website, Salakov says that the PLC Party is ��for the Family, for a Tolerant Society, for Law Reform, for Stronger Europe, and for British globally��.


Salakov had a long record of clashes with the law in England before coming to Dublin and setting up a �Public Law Centre�. In 1999, Southwark Crown Court in London jailed him for 30 months on 19 counts of fraud and posing as a barrister. He had tried to persuade the National Lottery to give him �10.6 million to set up a legal advice service.

The prosecution said he had claimed to be a wealthy philanthropist supported by financiers in The Hague, but was actually just a ��tin pot operator��. After his release from prison, Salakov brought more than 30 sets of legal proceedings against the British police, prison governor, prison doctors, his solicitor and a former partner.

The Queen�s Bench Division declared him a ��vexatious litigant�� and banned him from bringing any more civil proceedings. Salakov arrived in Dublin in 2002 and set up a �legal advice� centre in rented offices at 15-17 Upper Abbey Street. He issued refugees with what he called a ��Public Law Centre Travel-ID Pass�� and sold shares in his company, Invest in Ireland, to asylum-seekers.

Documents filed at the Companies Registration Office indicated that the company allotted dozens of €100 shares over a nine-month period, mostly to Chinese and Indian nationals. Salakov and Wong were also directors of two other Irish-registered ��business and management consultants��: Asian Holidays and Asian Employment.

Roscommon District Judge Mary Fahey ordered Salakov�s arrest after he claimed to be a barrister and tried to represent an Albanian immigrant in court. He was deported and moved his �Public Law Centre� back to South Norwood in London.

How are we sure he is Nigerian, do anybody know any Nigerian that goes by the name Salakov??

Unless he Russian-nized his name!

LOL! Salakoz sounds Russian. . . maybe said Nigerian is using an alias?

A Nigerian with a Russian Passport??

MrCrackles:

Unless he Russian-nized his name!

shotster50:

How are we sure he is Nigerian, do anybody know any Nigerian that goes by the name Salakov??

Salako . . . just add V to it.

lol @ David, could be a possibility.

i really dont see why his case is that serious,granted he is an undesirable element or at best an irritant but he can hardly be likened to a criminal mastermind plotting to take over the world

yep i know him, he is the next adolf hitler of Africa

Notice how he seems to come back after each trial,

he is a nigerian bcs they call him conman so every conman is a nigeria.
if they catch putting is fraud tomorrow they will call him a nigerian.

Thats cool.

think about dayo[b]V[/b]

Cool aint it?

he is a nigerian bcs they call him conman so every conman is a nigeria.
if they catch putting is fraud tomorrow they will call him a nigerian.

abioo. The story has no link sef.

Why was he deported to Uk? And not to Nigeria? and why is he forming a Euro political party if he's a Nigerian?


The man has wriiten over 20 law books. Did u know that?

earTHMama:

abioo. The story has no link sef.

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