From RCIPS

Man charged and due in court

The 49-year-old man who was arrested in the Pedro area on Wednesday 6 March on suspicion of abuse of office, theft and suspicion of possession of a drug utensil, has been charged and is due to appear in court next week.

The man complied with his police bail conditions and presented himself to officers of the Financial Crime Unit this morning. He has been charged with;

• 8 counts of obtaining property by deception
• 7 counts of theft
• 1 count of obtaining a money transfer by deception
• 1 count of transferring criminal property
• 9 counts of making a document without authority
• 1 count of obtaining property by deception
• 2 counts of forgery

He has been bailed to appear in court on Tuesday, 16 April 2013.

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The “man” has been identified as Joey Ebanks, who was suspended as managing director of  the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA), by HE Governor Duncan Taylor when irregularities were discovered by Auditor General Alastair Swarbrick at the end of February.

Mr Ebanks is standing for election in North Sound and has made accusations of corruption against the incumbent MLA Ezzard Miller as well as Governor Duncan Taylor and the chairman of the Judicial Legal Services Commissions via his Facebook account.

He also claimed that when he was MD of the ERA he was asked to fix the bid for DECCO in order for them to be awarded the contract to generate 36MW of future power. This resulted in the ERA ordering an investigation into the tendering procedures that resulted in DECCO being awarded the contract.