Officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) are currently interrogating the former NPP MP for Nkoranza North constituency, Eric Amoateng who arrived in the country after serving a 10-year jail term in the United States for drug related offences.<\/p>\n
According to Citi News<\/strong> sources, the interrogation is to de-brief him and also begin the process of confiscating his assets.<\/p>\n Citi News<\/strong> sources also say he might be slapped with a new charge for fraudulently obtaining a passport.<\/p>\n The former MP touched down at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra at exactly 1400 GMT on Delta airline number DL478.<\/p>\n After brief checks at the airport, he was whisked away for further interrogation at the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB) headquarters.<\/p>\n He was accompanied by two officers from the US State Department who were aboard his flight to ensure his transfer to Ghanaian state officials.<\/p>\n Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Kojo Agyeman reported that the NACOB officials were waiting for the ex-lawmaker on the tarmac \u201cso when he got there, two US State Department officials handed him over to the NACOB officials and they just whisked him away amidst tight security.\u201d<\/p>\n It is believed his lawyers are currently with him at the offices of NACOB.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, supporters from his constituency who thronged the airport to welcome him were left disappointed after he was whisked away by NACOB officials.<\/span><\/p>\n The ex-legislator was arrested on December 11, 2005, for illegal possession of 136 pounds of heroin estimated at about $6 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) are currently interrogating the former NPP MP for Nkoranza North constituency, Eric Amoateng who arrived in the country after serving a 10-year jail term in the United States for drug related offences. According to Citi News sources, the interrogation is to de-brief him and also begin the process […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37779,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-37775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}