Efe Sodje, Brothers In Hot Soup For Using Foundation For Fraud In U.K
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These are not the best of times for 34-years-old former Super Eagles player, Efetobore Sodje, and his four as the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) have charged them with fraud.
The other brothers: Bright Sodje, 50, Samuel Sodje, 37, and Stephen Sodje, 42, were charged with fraudulent trading.
The brothers were arrested on 13 July after a three-year NCA’s investigation into alleged irregularities at the Sodje Sports Foundation.
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According to NCA, Sodje Sports Foundation was registered on March 1, 2010 and disbanded on January 22, 2015.
The foundation has a motley of clearly unrelated aims, according to its record retrieved UK Charity Commission.
The aims are poverty reduction, advance good health in people through the provision of facilities in playing amateur sports and the promotion of lifelong learning.
Others are promotion of leadership skills and health issues such as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, and nutrition.
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It also claimed to be focused on with human rights violations such as “discrimination, equality and diversity issues (whether relating to race, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation or religion).”
The accused were arraigned on October 21 and were granted bail at the Westminster Magistrates’ court in London.
They are to appear on 14th November 2016.
