By Bayo Oluwasanmi
Colonel Sambo Dasuki, was former National Security Adviser
It is not uncommon for cowards to stage different con tactics to escape all responsibilities for their criminal acts. The most popular and the most successful one is feigning illness.
Lu Xiang, a Chinese anti-graft prosecutor once told a Chinese Court that corrupt officials often fake illness to dodge trial. Since 2009, Lu Xiang has handled more than 90 major corruption cases, 17 of which involved bureau-level cadres, 19 at departmental level, and 47 cases involving people who had received one million yuan (about $1.26 million) or more in bribes.
Alan Knight and his wife Helen of Sketty, Swansea, UK came up with a cock-and-bull story to dodge justice. Knight tried to dodge trial for conning a vulnerable elderly neighbour out of his 41,000 British pounds savings after he was charged to court in September 2012. The wife Helen Knight, claimed her husband couldn’t stand trial because he was a quadriplegic.
She even wrote Prime Minister David Cameron to support her campaign for cops to drop fraud charges against her husband because he was in a coma. But police found Knight, 48, had been on family vacation and shopping trips during the two years when he was supposed to be in a coma. Alan and his wife were sent to jail for pretending Alan was in a “vegetative state” to escape trial. Alan was jailed for an extra 14 months in addition to a four-and-a-half year term for fraud.
In 2012 in the Philippines, Renato Corona, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines was convicted for failure to declare several high value assets including $2.4 million in foreign currency deposits on his Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN). Corona’s vain attempt to feign illness did not succeed in securing his release. …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
