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Court & Crime
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AG withdraws motion seeking to halt former MASLOC CEO’s acquittal 
Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – The Attorney-General has withdrawn a motion seeking to halt the release of Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, former Chief Executive Officer of…
Legal researcher challenges judicial vacation at Supreme Court
By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – Mr Elorm Kwami Gorni, a legal researcher, has asked the Supreme Court to declare Ghana’s two-month judicial vacation unconstitutional. Mr Gorni…
Mother remanded for allegedly inflicting cutlass wounds on daughter
By Isaac Arkoh Cape Coast, Aug. 12, GNA – The Assin Fosu District Court has remanded 28-year-old trader, Monica Ampomah, into police custody for three weeks…
Attorney General opposes Wontumi’s bail pending appeal
Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – The Attorney General (AG) has opposed Bernard Antwi Boasiako’s notice for an order for bail pending an appeal. The AG denied…
Court maintains Adu-Boahene trial will continue during legal vacation Â
Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra High Court has maintained that the trial of former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene will continue…
Court to continue Hamid trial during legal vacationÂ
By Morkporkpor Anku   Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra High Court has ruled that the criminal trial involving Dr Mustapha Hamid, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), will continue during the…
Mason jailed eight years for robbing pharmacistÂ
By Charles Tawiah Kwadaso (Ash), Aug. 11, GNA – The Kwadaso Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 35-year-old mason to eight…
OSP assistance contributes to conviction of Ghanaian-American in US bribery caseÂ
By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says its investigative and evidentiary assistance contributed to the US conviction of…
Court turns down bail for alleged romance scam pastorÂ
Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has for the second time remanded an online pastor into police custody over alleged romance scams involving…
Three remanded over alleged concealment of 869 cocaine slabs in gari
Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has remanded three persons over the alleged concealment of 869 slabs of suspected cocaine in…
Nkawie Police arrest 25-year-old for attempted robbery
By Muyid Deen Suleman, GNA Kumasi, Aug. 10 GNA – The Nkawie Divisional Police Command has arrested Francis Nsiah in connection with an attempted armed robbery incident on the Hiakose-Nweneso road, near Manso Nkwanta, in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti region. Nsiah,…
Police arrest two suspects over alleged murder, shooting at Tuba
Accra, Aug. 10, GNA – Police have arrested two brothers over the alleged murder of a 54-year-old man and shooting of his wife at…
Wontumi seeks bail pending appealÂ
Accra, Aug. 8, GNA – Bernard Antwi Boasiako, aka Wontumi, has filed a motion seeking bail pending an appeal against his 20-year prison sentence. Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of…
Court sentences barber for dumping refuse in public drain
By Edward Williams Hohoe (V/R), Aug. 7, GNA – A Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced Ekpane Seyram, a barber for collecting and dumping rubbish into a public drain. Ekpane pleaded…
Court jails baby abductor to three years imprisonment
By Edward Williams Hohoe (V/R), Aug. 7, GNA – The Kpando Circuit Court has sentenced a 31-year-old trader, Stella Amedzorme, to three years’ imprisonment for abducting an…
Tema police intercept suspected cocaine worth US$6.9 million, arrest fourÂ
By Miriam Oparebea, GNA Tema, Aug. 06, GNA — The Tema Regional Police Command has intercepted 866 parcels of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine with an…
Armed robbery attack on mobile money vendors leaves two dead at FiapreÂ
Fiapre (Bono), Aug. 6, GNA – An armed robbery attack on two mobile money vendors has left two people dead at Fiapre in the…
Adu-Boahene’s lawyers petition Chief Justice over vacation trial
By Morkporkpor Anku, Accra, Aug. 5, GNA – Lawyers for Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director-Genera of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), have asked the Chief Justice to…
Unemployed in court for defrauding businessman of GHC1,860,000Â Â
Accra, Aug. 6, GNA – A 32‑year‑old man accused of defrauding a businessman of GH¢1,860,000 under the guise of being a bank official has…