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“Victim” testimonies make solicitors nervous
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“Victim” testimonies make solicitors nervous
Ruined and desperate people point at only one party “responsible” for their woes: solicitors. Last week, each session of the commission of enquiry on the Sale by levy chaired by former chief justice Sir Victor Glover could be thus summed up. On the one hand, victims described how they had given money to their solicitors to postpone their appearance in Court or to prevent their properties from being seized. On the other hand, solicitors denied the allegations with documents as evidence.
However, two of them, Agzal Agowan and Iqbal Dauhoo, have been arrested for alleged corruption. The latter was abroad the whole of last week. He went to the police as soon as he came back from Rodrigues. Other solicitors have already called upon their lawyers “just in case” the Glover commission has made a list of “clear-cut” cases of malpractices.
Many of them have already shown their discontent and stress over the allegations of victims in front of the commission. Two others could be called to the Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) headquarters: Cader Rajah and Osman Abbasakoor. The latter was very annoyed that the ICAC went to his office during the week. “This affair gives the impression that Abbasakoor is a thief!”
According to Harish Boodhoo, who instigated the commission of inquiry “all we’re hearing now is only the tip of the iceberg. We are living in a corrupt country.” The main problem for him is that fraud and corruption are “encouraged” by solicitors, lawyers and notaries of the country.
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The solution lies in “an awakening of the population,” Harish Boodhoo adds. The population should take to the streets to show their discontent to the government and ask for a more healthy society.
Raouf Jadoo, a lawyer, who made a statement before the commission to denounce “malpractices or cases that could become malpractices”, thinks that laws should be amended and the 10% commission taken by solicitors regulated. Sir Victor Glover made it clear that the clients did not only have to pay this 10% commission but also “15% VAT.” He added that the “delay for outbidding is too short.”
The poignant testimonies of sale by levy victims have at least helped show that they were not informed enough of the conditions and terms of contracts that bind them to their creditors.
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