The family of late business mogul, Mobolaji Bank Anthony has distanced themselves from Queen Irene Cole, a lady claiming to be an executive trustee of the late philanthropist’s estate. Cole had been parading herself as a member of the trustee of Anthony’s property and she has been boasting of helping the family recover over $50 billion worth of estate from some banks and registrars whom she allegedly connived with to deprive the statutory beneficiaries of their entitlement.
Contrary to her claim, the family of the late businessman who is represented by London based Babatunde Bank-Anthony, a grandson of the late billionaire, revealed his grandfather left a comprehensive Will and Testament which was to be handled by some trustee in which Cole and her partners were not included as Cole is not known to Anthony’s family.
It was gathered that Cole has been lobbying to insert herself in the estate and properties of the late Anthony. She claimed to be the godmother of Funmiade, one of the grandchildren of Anthony who is not a statutory beneficiary of the Will of the late businessman. She connived with her goddaughter and tried to involve another grandchild, Mohammed Abubakar Akintunde, to become a trustee of the Anthony family so that she can have access to the businessman’s estate’s account. But, Akintunde turned her down and insisted that the whole of Anthony’s family must give their consent to her decision.
Cole went as far as getting a Lagos High Court document purporting her to be one of the trustees of Anthony’s estate. The family had to take her to court as she did not properly disclose facts to the court by altering some names to match one of the names of the beneficiaries in the Will in order to get a favourable court judgement. Sir Mobolaji Bank Anthony was a council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. At a time, he held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group. He was a board member of various companies and had properties scattered all over Lagos.