Former staff of the Asset Management and Recovery
Corporation (AMRC), Abdoulie Dibba and Yusupha M. Jaiteh, face a new charge at
the Special Criminal Court in Banjul before Justice Emmanuel Nkea.
When the case was announced yesterday, the Director of Public Prosecutions, S.H. Barkun, informed the court that he wanted to file an amended charge against the accused persons.
The court granted the application, and the case was adjourned to 3rd, 4th and 5th December 2012, for definite hearing.
Meanwhile, the trial judge had stated that he would excuse the 2nd accused person who was absent, but if he failed to report to court again his bail would be revoked.
It would be recalled that the accused persons were arraigned on a two-count charge of economic crime.
The particulars of offence on count one stated that Abdoulie B. Tamba, Abdoulie Dibba and Yusupha M. Jaiteh, between 2009 and 2010 at Banjul within the jurisdiction of the court, whilst holding public office, willfully and recklessly caused monetary loss to AMRC to the tune of D15, 450,000, by selling rice and cement to various individuals on credit without proper collaterals.
Count two read that Abdoulie B. Tamba, Abdoulie Dibba and Yusupha M. Jaiteh, between 2009 and 2010 in Banjul within the jurisdiction of the court, whilst holding public office, willfully and recklessly caused monetary loss to AMRC to the tune of D7, 200,000, by fraudulently converting same to the use of Samcad Holding Ltd.
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