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Gambia: CMC Dibba's Testimony Continues in Willy Joof's Trial
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FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
28 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Fabakary B. Ceesay And Awa B. Bah
The crime management coordinator, police commissioner Burama Dibba, had continued his evidence in chief in the trial of William John Joof, at the Banjul Magistrates Court on Wednesday, 19 March.
CMC Dibba told the court that he did not see any receipts regarding the payment of 160,000 French Francs to Mr. William Joof by Mr. Gerrard Nuss. CMC Dibba said that upon his arrival back home from France on his investigative mission into the matter, he invited Mr. Joof to his office in the presence of ASP Biran Jobe, commanding officer at the fraud squad. He said he informed Mr. Joof about the complaints levelled against him by Gerrard Nuss. CMC Dibba said that he also showed Mr. William Joof the two bank accounts which, he (Joof), is the sole signatory. CMC Dibba said that Mr. Joof accepted that he opened the two accounts; that he denied using the dollar account, even though he opened it.
"I was confronting him one by one on the complaints of Mr. Nuss. I confronted him about the 15,000 Euros and the 160,000 French Francs. He admitted receiving 15,000 euros from Mr. Nuss but denied the 160,000 French Francs," said CMC Dibba. CMC Dibba said that he later asked Mr. Joof to put that in his statement that he received 15,000 Euros from Mr. Nuss.
Going further, commissioner Dibba asserted that he also engaged Mr. Joof on the issue of the alleged purchasing of the 607 Peugeot vehicle. He said Mr. Joof told him that it was one Michael Concas who wanted to buy a car for the embassy, but that he did not know why it was insured in his name. CMC Dibba added that Mr. Joof also denied knowing anything about the car's insurance and the speed ticket issued to it; that he confronted Mr. Joof on the issue of the termination of the services of Mr. Gerrard Nuss and Michael Concas; that Mr. Joof told him to ask Moses Jallow on that particular issue. CMC noted that anytime Mr. Joof is confronted on any issue, a statement is always obtained from him. He said the cautionary statement was obtained from Mr. Joof by ASP Biran Jobe.
Commissioner Dibba told the court that all the documents pertaining to the case were in his custody up to the time of filing the case in the court. He said that the case file was later prepared and sent to the Attorney General's Chambers for advice before the accused was brought before the court on the charges against him.
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Mr. William John Joof, the former Gambia Ambassador to France, is standing trial on eleven different charges of criminal offence, which includes abuse of office, official corruption and stealing.
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