Information reaching peacefmonline.com indicates that the Attorney-General (A-G) has hauled former Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffour and former 2nd Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Mr. Johnson Asiama to court; officially charging the two.
The State has charged MD. Duffour with money laundering, while Dr. Asiama has been charged with willfully causing financial loss to the state.
They are expected to appear in before an Accra High court soon.
Seven others including Kwabena Duffuor II, Dansoa Kyereh, Jeffrey Amon, Ekow Nyarko Dadzie-Dennis, Elsie, Benjamin Ofori and Kwadwo Opoku Okoh have been also cited in the case and charged with 68 offences by the state for their role in the collapse of UNIBANK in 2017.
The charges preferred against the accused persons include conspiracy to commit crime, money laundering, fraudulent breach of trust and dishonestly appropriating funds of depositors.
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In a document dated February 5, it said Kwabena Duffuor II and Ekow Nyarko Dadzie-Dennis in 2014 agreed to act together with a common purpose to dishonestly appropriate the sum of ¢48,269,477.75 which was entrusted to them in trust for depositors of uniBank Ghana Limited.
This, the state said amounts to a fraudulent breach of trust, contrary to section 128 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
According to the state, the two individuals transferred the said amount to related parties of uniBank Ghana Limited knowing it to be proceeds of crime.
The two were also charged with coming together to a common purpose to dishonestly appropriate the sum of GH¢164,051,706.14 which was entrusted to them by depositors of the bank.
The founder of the UniBank, Dr. Kwabena Duffour, has been battling the Ghana Police Service in court seeking an interlocutory injunction to restrain the security agency from what he describes as “unlawful threats and harassment” following an invitation from the Crime Investigation Department (CID) last week.
According to the embattled businessman cum politician, he was summoned with a letter from the Special Investigation team on January 8, 2020, requesting him to make an appearance and to assist the team look into the allegation of money laundering and abetment of stealing and money laundering in UniBank leading to its collapse.
The defendant in the case was Edward Tabiri of the Ghana Police Service.
In response to the invitation, the lawyer for the plaintiff, Simon Animley, wrote back to the Special Investigation team drawing their attention that Dr. Kwabena Duffour ceased to be the director of UniBank way back in 2009 as he took an appointment as a Minister of Finance.
In a court document Simon Animley also sought “a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, his servant, agents, privies and assigns whatsoever from interfering with the plaintiff’s fundamental human rights.”
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Source: Peacefmonline.com/GHANA
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