Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail after pleading not guilty in a sex-trafficking case. A New York federal judge remanded the musician in custody after prosecutors argued he was a “serious flight risk”. Mr Combs, 54, was arrested on Monday evening, accused of running a criminal enterprise from at least 2008 that […]
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The District Court at Achimota has discharged Yahaya Alhassan, President of the Ghana Social Justice Forum and a journalist, after striking out charges against him related to his protest over the alleged $3 million scandal at Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST). Alhassan was arrested, along with two others, by the police and
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The Deputy Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has disclosed that government is actively pursuing the extradition of Sedinam Tamakloe Attionu, former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), who is currently residing in the United States. Ms Attionu, sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Accra High Court in
A 39-year-old driver who allegedly defrauded a businessman of GH¢120,000 has been remanded into police by an Adentan Circuit Court. Paul Kwabena Duku allegedly collected the money from the businessman under the pretext of selling a Kia Rhino truck to him but failed. Charged with defrauding by false pretences, Duku in the company of his
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Sean “Diddy” Combs faces federal charges in New York, his lawyer said late Monday. Details of the charges weren’t immediately announced by prosecutors, but Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement saying: “We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
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The Winneba District Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 30-year-old student of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to 13 months’ imprisonment for defrauding by false pretences, contrary to section 131 of the criminal and other offences 29/60. Frank Anderson Junior pleaded guilty and appealed to the court to give him time to refund the money,
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The man who was arrested for attacking the Comoros president with a knife on Friday has been found dead in prison, the authorities there say. The attack took place during a funeral for a well-known religious leader and injured President Azali Assoumani’s hand. National prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid said that after being arrested the attacker
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Three U.S. citizens are among 37 defendants sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for their role in a May failed coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Armed men briefly occupied an office of the presidency in capital Kinshasa on May 19 before their leader, U.S.-based Congolese politician Christian Malanga, was killed
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TikTok will start making its case on Monday against a law that will see it banned in the US unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells it within nine months. The measure – signed into law by President Biden in April – has been prompted by concerns that US users’ data is vulnerable to exploitation by
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An accountant who dishonestly appropriated GHC40,433.50 from the Ghana Police Church has been sentenced to two years in prison by an Adentan Circuit Court. Edward Unicorn, 32, told the court that he used the money to wager bets and asked for the court to grant him bail to work and pay it off. Unicorn was
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