The Ashaiman District Court has remanded into police custody a 36-year-old trader, Patience Kofi, for stealing Gh₵ 3,200.00 belonging to her employer. The Court presided over by Mr. Derick Pardden Eshun, remanded him to reappear on April 22, 2024, for sentencing after pleading guilty to two counts of unlawful entry and stealing. Inspector Henry Tetteh […]
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Sedinam Tamakloe-Attionu, a former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), has been sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment in hard labour for willfully causing financial loss to the State. Her accomplice, Daniel Axim, also a former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the same Institution, was also incarcerated for five
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A Justice of the Court Appeal, Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe has expressed concerns about how the educated elites have rather become more “harmful” than a robber with an AK47 gun. According to her, throughout her years of practice, she has not heard of an armed robber who had broken into someone’s premises and bolted with
Three staff of the Electoral Commission of Ghana and a student have been remanded for two weeks by the Circuit Court at Dansoman for allegedly stealing Laptops and biometric devices belonging to the commission. The three staff – Philip Tetteh, a labourer, Benjamin Fienyi, a security man and Joseph Blackson Adamadze, a database administrator have
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The Financial and Economic Division of the High Court in Accra is expected to deliver judgment in the case in which “absconded” former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu and interdicted Head of Operations, Daniel Axim are standing trial. The two were charged for among
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A Chartered Accountant who is testifying as the First Defence Witness for the founder of the defunct Beige Bank, Michael Nyinaku, has told the High Court in Accra that he has provided “all the information about the financial position of the bank” to the Receiver of Beige Bank. Dawda M. Hafisdeen, also a lawyer, told
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 29TH MAY, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND ACOLATSE J. JUDGMENT OF GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. Granville Sharp J.A., delivered the judgment of the Court: (His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded:—) Whatever may be the fact as to the purchase of cloth, it
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Three persons accused of stealing metals worth GHC100,000 at a warehouse at Odorkor in Accra have been acquitted and discharged by the Dansoman Circuit Court. The three accused persons are: Desmond Nartey, 18, Seth Kwakye Boafo, 21, and Sule Musah, 55. The three accused persons were freed by the court after their counsels led by
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Mr Moro Musah, a 33-year-old farmer, has been apprehended by the Tumu Police for allegedly stealing cattle in October 2023 at Kroboi in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region. In a caution statement presented to the Circuit Court in Wa, the accused, Mr Moro Musah, admitted to the theft but said: “I
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Gabriel Dzimekpui, a septuagenarian farmer, has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing 325 teak trees valued at GH¢34,000. Dzimekpui was put before the Hohoe Circuit Court on December 14, 2023, for the offence, where he pleaded guilty with explanation. His explanation could not exonerate him hence was granted bail and sentencing deferred
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