Chinese galamsey Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/chinese-galamsey/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:23:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-CITI-973-FM-32x32.jpg Chinese galamsey Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/chinese-galamsey/ 32 32 Chinese re-arrested for engaging in galamsey https://citifmonline.com/2017/09/chinese-re-arrested-for-engaging-in-galamsey/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 06:01:59 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=353672 Five Chinese nationals who were granted bail by the Bekwai Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region for engaging in illegal mining, have been re-arrested for their involvement in the same act. The five “galamseyers’’ were arrested by the National Anti-galamsey Task-Force at Abodom in the Bekwai District, and granted bail by the court on September […]

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]]> Five Chinese nationals who were granted bail by the Bekwai Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region for engaging in illegal mining, have been re-arrested for their involvement in the same act.

The five “galamseyers’’ were arrested by the National Anti-galamsey Task-Force at Abodom in the Bekwai District, and granted bail by the court on September 6, 2017.

[contextly_sidebar id=”224XdOKbdIOVHVgcODYnVFVo26BUcryr”]The names of the suspects as provided by the task-force are Huang Shang Gao, 54; Huang Yang Gang, 36; Lin Gang Sheng, 48; Lu Yan Shan and Yan Shao Gao, 35.

According to a source close to the task-force, some of it members and policemen from the Bekwai Divisional Command went on an operation in the Abodom area, during which they found the five Chinese who had previously been arrested at the same location for alleged illegal mining.

It said the task-force seized quantities of freshly washed sand substances suspected to contain gold, 50 BB cartridges and some solid materials suspected to be gold.

Investigations

The source said a certified gold merchant later confirmed the solid metallic substance to be pure gold which weighed 45.65 grammes.

The suspects and the seized items have been handed over to the Bekwai Divisional Police Command for further investigations and prosecution.

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Source: Graphic.com.gh

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