How Globasure Director,  Christopher Ife Swindled Company  #18m 

MICHAEL AKINOLA

The managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Globasure Technologies Limited,  Christopher Ife, located at plot 14 Henry Ojogbo crescent, Lekki phrase 1 Lagos State has gone into hiding after he reportedly swindled a clearing and forwarding company #18m and bolted away to evade police arrest.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Imo State-born Ife is wanted by the Police following a petition to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Abubaka Adamu by the managing Director, Alpha-K Aviation and Allied services Limited, Otunba Kayode Adesina whose office is located at Araromi street, Anifowose area of Ikeja, Lagos.

The suspect, Christopher Ife who turned himself a fugitive because of the alleged crime, compounded his woes by issuing two dud cheques to the tune of over #17m in order to defraud the company since then he was said to be evasive over the alleged fraud.

Police sources said Ife who is the alter ego of Globasure Technologies limited contacted Alpha K Aviation & Allied services Limited in 2018 to clear a consignment of Android Point of Sale, POS, belonging to Bet9ja from China to Nigeria.

Initially the arrangement was  cover air freight, customs and delivery to the office door. However,  due to change in foreign exchange variation, Alpha-K and Allied services limited opted to air freight the goods and withdrew from clearing it. The company released documents to enable Ife to use another company to clear the goods on condition, that he would pay the freight for bringing the goods to Nigeria.

It was gathered that Alpha-K and Allied Services limited wrote a detention order to SAHCOL not to release the goods until Ife and his company pay the freight of shipment to Nigeria.

When Ife realized that he will not be able to clear the goods because of the detention order, he went to Otunba and pleaded to withdraw the detention order to enable him to clear the goods and supply to Bet9ja who he lied that will only pay him if he supply the goods.

He was asked to give post dated Bank cheques and promissory note of paying the money at the agreed date which he signed and wrote.

He signed two UBA bank post dated cheques and gave the company and he was allowed to carry the goods which he supplied to Bet9ja who paid him fully and he ran away.

However, the fraud was exposed after the company went to clear the cheques and it was not honoured by the Bank and since then Ife has been on the run.

P.M.EXPRESS investigation revealed that Bet9ja had since paid  him the contract money worth close to $1m but Ife refused to pay the money rather he was insisting that he wanted to go to EFCC and Police and nothing will happen because he knows top people in both Police and EFCC.

When our correspondent contacted the MD, Alpha-K Aviation and Allied Services limited, Otunba Kayode Adesina over the matter, he confirmed the alleged fraud and declined to make further comments then referred our reporter to the Police who is investigating the matter. It was also gathered that it was not the first time, Globasure was defrauding the Alpha-K and Allied Services limited which the Police is now investigating.

Efforts to contact Christopher Ife proved abortive as his known number was switched off when our correspondent contacted him on phone given suspicion that he was actually on the run.