Extradition processes for David McDermott, the British fugitive who was arrested on Saturday will begin today [Monday].<\/p>\n
David McDermott, who was being hunted by the\u00a0National Crime Agency in the UK,\u00a0was finally arrested in an international sting operation at his home in the affluent Burma Hills in Accra.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”hb2Ny3cdGAOvIqYomUx13mlMuEuwpn7z”]The process will make it possible for him to be sent back home to the United Kingdom to face trial there.<\/p>\n
The National Crime Agency (NCA) on its official website said;\u00a0\u201cMcDermott is suspected of being a member of a Liverpool-based organised crime group involved in a conspiracy to import and supply cocaine which was seized from a container of frozen Argentinean beef in May 2013 at Tilbury Docks.”<\/p>\n
He is also wanted for conspiracy to blackmail.<\/p>\n
I don’t know my in-law was a fugitive -BoG Governor<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah, has\u00a0confirmed that Ramona Wampah who was married to David McDermott,\u00a0is\u00a0his step daughter.<\/p>\n Dr. Wampah has expressed shock over the arrest but said in a statement that he had no knowledge that David McDermott was a fugitive and an alleged drug dealer.<\/p>\n According to Dr. Wampah, he knew David to be a worker in the mining industry and was shocked about his arrest.<\/p>\n \u201cI have received news about the arrest of David McDermott, who is married to my step daughter, Ramona, with shock. David has been known to me as a worker in the mining sector and has been living in the country with Ramona since their marriage some three years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Extradition processes for David McDermott, the British fugitive who was arrested on Saturday will begin today [Monday]. David McDermott, who was being hunted by the\u00a0National Crime Agency in the UK,\u00a0was finally arrested in an international sting operation at his home in the affluent Burma Hills in Accra. [contextly_sidebar id=”hb2Ny3cdGAOvIqYomUx13mlMuEuwpn7z”]The process will make it possible for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}