The Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) arrested Mohammud Tayab Fadil Ramjan. This former trainee at the law firm of Étienne Sinatambou, now a lawyer, has been provisionally charged before the District Court of Port Louis with money laundering under section 3(1)b of FIAMLA.
In June 2015, Étienne Sinatambou’s wife reported to the police an alleged embezzlement of Rs 15.2M. She alleged that about 100 cheques of the study have been forged and the amount has been pocketed, and she suspected him.
The case has been taken up by the police and the investigation referred by the Financing Intelligence Unit (FIU) to ICAC. A disclosure order has revealed that cheques have been issued to the suspect’s account in the name of his deceased father and his company Dodo Advertising and Marketing.
At the time, the suspect was not in Mauritius and his family was unaware of his whereabouts. The ICAC then traced him back in Dubai and issued a “notice upon arrival”. Six years later, that is in August this year, the suspect returned to the country.
The Passport and Immigration Office informed ICAC, and he was immediately arrested as soon as the police picked him up from quarantine. The suspect has preferred to remain silent throughout the investigation and did not say a word about how he spent the amount of Rs 10M traced by the ICAC’s investigation.
