The High Court in Freetown, presided over by Justice Alusine Sesay on July 2, 2020, convicted Aiah Momodu, customs broker, and Abdul S. Kabba, delivery clerk of Kollenten Shipping Services for fraudulent failure to make payment of custom levy, contrary to Section 48 (1) (d) of the Anti-Corruption Act No. 12 of 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.
Justice Sesay ordered Momodu and Kabba to pay a fine of Le 30 million (Thirty Million Leones) each, within thirty days or spend three years in prison.
Between 1st and 31st March, 2014, Aiah Momodu and Abdul S. Kabba, fraudulently failed to pay customs levy in the sum of Le 23, 466,222.44 payable on a forty –feet Container to the National Revenue Authority.
On the other hand, Ahmed Kamara, an officer of the Prevention Services and Special Duties Department of the National Revenue Authority, was acquitted and discharged, on the charge of Abuse of Office. Also, during the trial, the Judge had on the 28th October, 2019, ruled in favour of Ahmed Tambawa, Documentation Supervisor at the Freetown Terminal Ltd. (Bollore), on a No Case Submission.
By Isabella Cassell
09/07/2020. ISSUE NO.: 7862