{"id":328416,"date":"2017-06-15T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328416"},"modified":"2017-06-15T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T06:00:50","slug":"police-handling-gold-scam-case-professionally-ambrose-dery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328416","title":{"rendered":"Police handling Gold scam case professionally &#8211; Ambrose Dery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has rubbished claims that the police hierarchy has been complicit a gold scam that hit the service.<\/p>\n<p>A US licensed gold buying firm at a press conference had accused the police of being corrupt and undermining investigations in connection with the purchase of gold worth GHc 1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;borcZmvv5VJepzwzsovnblI2jOHYWemh&#8221;]But during an official visit to the Police Service at its headquarters on Wednesday, the Interior Minister boasted that &#8220;the Police has the best investigative machinery in this country and I believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/13\/police-hierarchy-complicit-in-ghc1-3m-scam-us-gold-firm\/\">allegations against the Police hierarchy<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>by the\u00a0US company, Mr. Dery said, \u201cthe reports that I know and monitoring that I have done of the situation shows otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister also the stressed the need for public cooperation to help the police to effectively carry out its investigative duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say is that, the Police is able to respond as swiftly as the quality of information it gets will permit. This is why I will appeal to Ghanaians to provide information, vital information,\u201d Mr. Dery said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Police Service has disputed claims it has not been committed and transparent in the investigation of the Ghc1.3 million gold scam.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_327981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-327981\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-327981\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/James-Barbieri-2-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"Director of Strategy and Business Development of Green Global Resources, James Barbieri\" width=\"620\" height=\"453\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-327981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director of Strategy and Business Development of Green Global Resources, James Barbieri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US firm, Green Global Resources, had held a press conference and accused Ghana Police hierarchy of corruption in\u00a0the gold case.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Strategy and Business Development of Green Global Resources, James Barbieri alleged that\u00a0\u201cin this situation, a lot of senior police officials and some other junior ranking officials, some including BNI officers, were allegedly protecting the scammers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This gold scam case led to the interdiction of the then-East Legon Police Commander, DSP Emmanuel Basintale, and 6 others after they seized 13 gold bars from the firm under the pretext that they bought stolen gold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Caleb Kudah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has rubbished claims that the police hierarchy has been complicit a gold scam that hit the service. A US licensed gold buying firm at a press conference had accused the police of being corrupt and undermining investigations in connection with the purchase of gold worth GHc 1.3 million. 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