A special investigation has been reportedly launched into an alleged bribery and document forgery by Ali Topal and Huib Houben in Sierra Leone by a team of unidentified special agents who will subsequently forward their findings to the President of Sierra Leone.
Ali Topal and Huib Houben believed to be investors with doubtable credentials operating in Sierra Leone have been reported at the highest level for their involvement in alleged bribery of high-ranking officials in government including certain senior-ranking police officers to aid in the cover-up of their alleged misdemeanors including to facilitate the forgery of documents in an alleged deliberate attempt to illegally takeover AGT Mining.
Credible sources have disclosed the names of certain of the police officers aiding and abetting this criminal enterprise, and these sources have confirmed to this medium that the names of the alleged collaborators would soon be made public. It is believed that by the time this publication would have been made, the President of the Republic would have thoroughly briefed and knowing how determined the President is in protecting foreign direct investments in the country, he is like deemed to take drastic actions against those published collaborators in government and in the police with most people contemplating actions that will include summary dismissals and or the institution of legal proceedings against them.
It is additionally, it is further being alleged that both Ali Topal and a certain Gertjan Boot also in similar fraudulent schemes are said to be forging corporate documents and fabricating annual meetings of fake shareholders in the Netherlands, with few of those they could lay hands on physically being robbed of their investments. This news medium notes with caution that it could some of these actions that are undermining true investments in the country giving the kind of bad image Ali Topal, Huib Houben and Gertjan Boot are portraying about Sierra Leone on the international stage.
The individuals in question are said to have exploited the poverty in Sierra Leone through bribery and defamation, undermining local institutions and ownership rights. Witnesses have reportedly seen the heavily intoxicated Ali Topal and Gertjan Boot drinking together at the Radisson Blu hotel bar in Freetown.
Their alleged plan includes the smuggling of gold from mines legally owned by local Sierra Leoneans to the Netherlands—another blatant act of exploitation, as if the country has not already suffered enough at the hands of such criminals who leave nothing behind.