{"id":35818,"date":"2022-02-21T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=35818"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:08:15","slug":"discharge-nam-1-continuous-adjournments-of-case-unreasonable-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=35818","title":{"rendered":"Discharge NAM 1; continuous adjournments of case unreasonable \u2013 Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lawyers for Nana Appiah Mensah , alias NAM 1, led by Alexander Owusu Junior, has urged the Accra Circuit 10 to discharge the embattled businessman if the prosecution continues asking for adjournments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He argues that by the architecture of the country\u2019s criminal justice system, prosecutions are supposed to be conducted within a reasonable time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case, however, he says, has traveled far beyond reasonable times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beleaguered Chief Executive of a defunct gold dealership firm, MenzGold, stands accused of defrauding at least 16,000 of his customers of GH\u00a21.68 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was arrested in July 2019, slapped with 61 counts of criminal offenses including defrauding by false pretenses, abetment to defraud by false pretenses, carrying deposit business without a licence, abetment of sale of minerals without a licence, sale of minerals without a licence, abetment to the unlawful deposit-taking, unlawful deposit-taking and money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAM1 is on a GHS 1 billion bail while the case is being heard, and it\u2019s been three years since the charges were initiated against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Court on Monday, February 21, 2022, Prosecutor DSP Sylvester Asare prayed for adjournment, attracting the concerns of NAM1\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case has been adjourned to April 4, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Send your news stories to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dannyboy744@gmail.com\">dannyboy744@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and via WhatsApp on +233 266777777<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for Nana Appiah Mensah , alias NAM 1, led by Alexander Owusu Junior, has urged the Accra Circuit 10 to discharge the embattled businessman if the prosecution continues asking for adjournments. 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