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13 Oct

Sheer Greed! – Judge Fumes Before Sentencing Ato-Essien To 15-Year Jail Term

Wontumi1NewsAto Essien, Attorney General, Capital Bank Case, Judge

Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, the judge who sentenced the founder of the defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, has justified his ruling. He said the convict (Ato Essien) demonstrated sheer greed and needed to pay the price for his action. Delivering his ruling on Thursday, October 12, the judge insisted that Mr Essien aimed at stealing gargantuan sums of money from the state through his conduct. According to the judge, nothing was going to have him (Ato Essien) change his mind on the matter. “The convict demonstrated sheer greed in his desire to own another bank besides Capital Bank Ltd…

20 Sep

Judge vows to handle Cecilia Dapaah’s case professionally

Evans ManassehNewsCecilia Dapaah, Judge

Mrs. Afia Owusuaa Appiah, presiding judge of an Accra Circuit Court hearing the complaint of stealing filed by the police on behalf of the former Minister of State, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, against her former domestic workers, says she (judge) would not bow to public pressure to treat the instant case differently from the others before her. She made the statement yesterday in response to an oral application by a counsel in the case, Raymond Feli, holding brief for Yaw Danquah, that the prosecution of the case should be expedited, but the prosecution kept asking for adjournments. According to counsel Feli,…