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Ex-Delta state governor James Ibori appeals his conviction, takes UK government to Eu - Edoman - 04-18-2019 Ex-Delta state governor James Ibori appeals his conviction, takes UK government to European Court of Human rights Former Delta state governor, James Ibori, has dragged the government of the United Kingdom to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, in a bid to quash his conviction by a London court. The attestation papers were filed before the European Court on Tuesday, April 16th. James Ibori, who was jailed in Britain in 2012 for laundering tens of millions of dollars in stolen public funds, through British banks and properties, was governor of Delta state between 1999-2007. He pleaded guilty in a London court in 2012 to a 10-count charge of fraud and money-laundering, involving sums amounting to at least 50 million pounds ($66 million). He received a 13-year jail sentence of which he served half, as is common in the British system. In his attestation paper filed at the European court, Ibori argued that the UK government disobeyed its own laws all in a rush to get him convicted. His counsel argued inter alia that: Quote: “1. This application concerns an unusual provision of United Kingdom law: s17 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (‘RIPA’).The conversation around the case is that Ibori went on appeal after pleading guilty. But his counsel said, in the appeal papers filed at the European Court of Human Rights, that Ibori had pleaded guilty to criminal offences but subsequently applied for permission to appeal his convictions in light of the disclosure of new material. It is this “new material” which surfaced later that Ibori is predicating this appeal on. In fact, Ibori’s counsels said in the case filed at the EU Court of Human Rights that at one of the court’s sittings, “Ms Sasha WASS QC (‘SWQC’), who had previously been instructed to prosecute the Applicant (Ibori), sent a note to the Court of Appeal (‘the Wass Note’). Quote:''4.3. In response to the Wass Note, and in an effort to attempt to comply with s17 of RIPA for the remainder of the hearing, the Court of Appeal imposed ‘Ground Rules’ on the parties. This limited what the Applicant’s counsel could refer to in his submissions.The above is the crux of the matter on which Ibori’s case rests. The former governor appealed to the EU Court of Appeal because a London Appeal Court refused to interrogate this submission and actually ruled that the issue of what is now known as “the Wass Note” was a no-go area. This forced the former governor to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights because Britain denied him his rights to a fair trial – which is recognised everywhere in the free world. It must be recalled that Ibori’s appeal was based on the following issues: Quote:1) That identified corrupt British Police Officers were responsible for the conduct of the case against him.In the face of these facts, the Court of Appeal ruled against him and went further to refuse him leave to bring an appeal on the case they had just determined. by Linda Ikeji |