By: Audrey Raymonda John
On Monday March 6th 2023, before Magistrate Mark Ngegba of Court No 1, Fatmata Bash Koroma, Detective Inspector attached at the Crime Unit at CID, on her testimony, said she recognized the accused person Aloysius Borbor Barbar named in the NASSIT fraud case. She recalled on Monday 22nd February 2021, when a case was reported by Ishmael Karankay an Investigating Officer attached at the National Social Security and Insurance Trust on behalf of the Institution , on receipt of the report of which statements were obtained from complainant and witnesses.
She said the complainant submitted documents concerning the case.
One of the documents include certificate of native marriage purported and signed by the Bo District Council which the accused claimed to be his late mother. The documents were tendered in Court marked exhibit A1-17. On the 22nd February 2021, the accused was interviewed by Corporal 10256 Bangura E.S. The witness also produced the statement of the accused marked B1-14
On the 26 February 2021, a team of Detectives headed by her, went to Bo District Council on an inquiry which a report was forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutor. End of testimony and the witness was cross examined by the accused lawyer. The accused is on bail and the matter was adjourned to the 20th March 2023.
It could be recalled that the accused Aloysius Borbor Barbar is charged on 80 counts ranging from conspiracy to defraud, forgery, uttering forged document, making false statement, furnishing false statement and causing money to be paid by false pretenses all contrary to the laws of Sierra Leone .
According to the charge sheet on count 1, the accused on a date unknown between the 15th 2019 and 23rd February 2021, in Kakua Chiefdom, Bo District, with intent to defraud, conspired together with other person’s unknown and defrauded the National Social Security and Insurance Trust and obtained survivors benefits by forging certificates of native marriage.
On the other counts, the accused on the same date and place presented false/forged certificate and received over two hundred million Leones by saying Amie Mary Tua is his wife with the pretext of claiming survivors benefits which is known to be false.