{"id":52694,"date":"2014-10-01T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52694"},"modified":"2014-10-01T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:43:29","slug":"court-varies-amoatengs-bail-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=52694","title":{"rendered":"Court varies Amoateng\u2019s bail conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Accra Circuit Court has varied the bail condition for the former Member of Parliament for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng, who is standing trial on a charge of possessing a forged document.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amoateng, who recently finished serving a 10-year jail term in the United States of America (USA) on a drug-related offence, was on\u00a0August 8, 2014 granted a GH\u00a2200,000 bail\u00a0<\/a>with three sureties, one to be justified.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”dVvE8OaRVIsWioQtGuzkWqz8sTXBdfLk”]He was also ordered to report to the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) of the Ghana Police Service on Mondays and Fridays.<\/p>\n

But his lawyer, Mr Charles Puozing, had problems with the directive, which he described as \u201ctoo restrictive.\u201d<\/p>\n

He accordingly applied to the court, presided over by Ms Ellen Vivian Amoah, to vary its decision to which the court obliged.<\/p>\n

The variation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obliging counsel\u2019s application,the court directed the accused person to report to any nearest police station in the country twice a week.<\/p>\n

Under the varied bail condition, the court said the police station which would record Amoateng as having reported himself should notify the CID Headquarters accordingly.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, an official from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) is expected to testify in the case on October 27, 2014.<\/p>\n

Charge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amoateng has pleaded not guilty to one count of possessing a forged document.<\/p>\n

He was alleged to have travelled from the USA to Ghana on a passport belonging to a female after serving his 10-year sentence for possessing herione.<\/p>\n

The passport, according to the prosecution, was in the name of one Barbara Inkum and was issued on February 23, 2009 at a time Amoateng was in prison in the USA.<\/p>\n

The said passport is currently in the possession of the registrar of the court as directed by the court on August 8, 2014.<\/p>\n

Facts of case<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the prosecution, Amoateng was on December 11, 2005 arrested in the USA for possessing heroin valued at $6 million.<\/p>\n

It said Amoateng was tried, convicted and subsequently sentenced to a 10-year prison term and was released on July 30, 2014.<\/p>\n

At about 2:20 p.m. on August 7, 2014, Amoateng, the prosecution said, arrived at the Kotoka International Airport and during his arrival formalities, he was found to possess a Ghanaian passport with the number H02347080.<\/p>\n

It said an analysis of the passport by the Document Fraud Office of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) revealed that it was a forged one as its bio-data page had been substituted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Graphic Online<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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