{"id":341056,"date":"2017-08-01T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=341056"},"modified":"2017-08-01T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:24:41","slug":"ghc1-3m-gold-scam-police-service-reinstates-dsp-basintale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/ghc1-3m-gold-scam-police-service-reinstates-dsp-basintale\/","title":{"rendered":"GHC1.3m gold scam: Police Service reinstates DSP Basintale\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police administration has reinstated the officer at the centre of an alleged gold scam, DSP Emmanuel Basintale.<\/p>\n<p>Citi News has gathered that his reinstatement took effect some two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>He was interdicted after preliminary investigations implicated him in the scandal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A licensed US gold buying firm, Green Global Resources, accused the Ghana Police of serious corruption at the highest level in the case of an alleged GHc 1.3 million gold scam.<\/p>\n<p>This alleged gold scam saw DSP Emmanuel Basintale, and six others interdicted after they were said to have seized 13 gold bars from Green Global Resources under the pretext that they bought stolen gold. The group is believed to have been led by DSP Basintale.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Basintale and his three other colleagues subsequently threatened to sue the Police Service for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>Their Lawyer, Kissi Agyabeng argued that his clients &#8220;have borne in silence the brunt of the odium the publications reduced them to in their name, reputation and standing in society, until now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mrl. Agyabeng maintained that his clients were dutifully doing their job when they arrested persons from Green Global Resources.<\/p>\n<p>He further insisted that his clients did not engage in any criminality by any stretch of the legal and factual imagination.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the Ghana Police Service is perpetuating an illegality by purporting to hold a service enquiry in respect of his clients in flagrant voilation of C.I 76.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police administration has reinstated the officer at the centre of an alleged gold scam, DSP Emmanuel Basintale. Citi News has gathered that his reinstatement took effect some two weeks ago. He was interdicted after preliminary investigations implicated him in the scandal. 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