By Brown Chimezie
A Nigerian businessman, Uzochukwu Jerome Ezeneche, who is in Thailand prison has cried to the Nigeria Government to wade into the matter.
Ezeneche and his wife were thrown into the prison on the allegation of using his money exchange bussiness to aid freighting of illegal proceed of crime and fraud from Thailand to Nigeria. According to his younger brother, Ebuka Ezeneche, trouble started for his elder brother sometimes in 2021, when Thailand police raided his office, and confiscated phones and computers, and also frozen his account . Ezeneche, through his lawyer in Thailand and Nigeria, had fought for justice until he was released on bail, but without some of his valuables released to and his account still frozen. Ebuka said his brother petitioned the Thailand Authority and demanded restoration of his account and return of valuables.
According to Ebuka, his action to recover his properties, including money, did not go down well with the Thailand authority as they allegedly began to scheme ways to rope his brother into criminal charges so that they could keep his money and other valuables to themselves.
According to Ebuka, since 2021, when the Thailand police raided his brothers office, he has been in and out of court in his efforts to prove his innocence , but to no avail until the Thai police again raided his home in August and arrested him and his Thai wife. “My brother’s offence was that he is fighting for the unfrozen of his account and return of some of his valuables seized in 2021. I want the whole world to know that my brother has a license to operate Bureau de change. He has office duly registered with the Thai Authority and not a scammer as being wrongly reported in the Thai media. His only offence was that he attempted to recover his money wrongly seized.
“I hereby, call on Nigeria embassy in Thailand, the federal government and the Nigeria Diaspora Commission to step in and ensure that justice is done and that my brother and wife are released from the prison. “