{"id":328323,"date":"2017-06-14T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328323"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:59:17","slug":"dsp-basintale-others-to-sue-police-service-over-gold-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/dsp-basintale-others-to-sue-police-service-over-gold-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"DSP Basintale, others to sue Police Service over gold scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Police Officers indicted <span style=\"color: #666699;\">i<strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/13\/police-hierarchy-complicit-in-ghc1-3m-scam-us-gold-firm\/\">n a Ghc1.3 million gold scam<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>have threatened to sue the Police Service over what they describe as negative media campaigns against them.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0licensed US gold buying firm, Green Global Resources, had accused the Ghana Police of serious corruption at the highest level in\u00a0the case of an alleged GHc 1.3 million gold scam.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;JiwgdHhiv7pNv1LNwqq0JEYvyh0Cfq3k&#8221;]This gold scam case led to the interdiction of the then-East Legon Police Commander, DSP Emmanuel Basintale, and 6 others, after they allegedly seized 13 gold bars from the firm under the pretext that they bought stolen gold. The group is believed to have been led by DSP Basintale.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer for \u00a0DSP Basintale and his three other colleagues, Kissi Agyebeng, in a statement said his clients\u201chave borne in silence the brunt of the odium the publications reduced them to in their name, reputation, and standing in society, until now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that, initially, the Police Service was given \u201cthe benefit of its stature that it would institute a service enquiry timeously to establish the veracity or otherwise of the allegations, should it find the need to do so upon their interdiction\u201d but recent events have given indication that &#8220;the Ghana Police Service is unwilling to act within the confines of law and regulation in this matter\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lawyer also made the following clarifications on behalf of his clients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our clients were dutifully doing their job and proceeded to arrest suspects upon a complaint and after investigations, they arraigned the suspects.<\/li>\n<li>Our clients have not engaged in any criminality by any stretch of the legal and factual imagination<\/li>\n<li>The confessed suspects who had been charged with the respective offences before court were faced by the CID Headquarters<\/li>\n<li>The CID Headquarters has now declared them wanted again<\/li>\n<li>The substance purported to be gold has not been independently assayed to establish their nature and substance<\/li>\n<li>The suspects confessed to defrauding the complainants and switching the actual gold for fake gold<\/li>\n<li>The Ghana Police Service is perpetrating an illegality by purporting to hold a service enquiry in respect of our clients in flagrant violation of C.I \u00a076<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ghana Police Service has disputed claims it has not been committed and transparent in the investigation of the \u00a0Ghc1.3 million gold scam.<\/p>\n<p>The Police\u2019s Public Affairs Director, Sheila Abayie Buckman, indicated that, the US firm was well aware that the police personnel involved in that scam were undergoing disciplinary action, among others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[ !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Police Officers indicted in a Ghc1.3 million gold scam\u00a0have threatened to sue the Police Service over what they describe as negative media campaigns against them. 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