[ 2014-11-26 ]

Gov't investigates top businessman over Nayele cocaine scandal
Government is investigating a top business man
said to have aided and abetted Nayele Ametefe to
smuggle cocaine to the UK.

Foreign Affairs Minister Hannah Tetteh would not
disclose the identity of the business man except
to add that the man has no link to the first
family.

She told Radio Gold in an interview on Tuesday,
the businessman placed a call to a top official at
the Foreign Ministry to facilitate the movement of
Nayele Ametefe through the VVIP lounge at the
Kotoka International Airport.

"The person who made the call is a business man. I
don't want to give his name because investigations
are still ongoing but he has nothing to do with
the first family.

"Or to the best of my knowledge that business man
is not related to any member of the president's
immediate family and by immediate family I mean
his brothers and sisters.

"That person has not yet been picked up which is
the reason why I don't want to mention the
person's name," she indicated.

Nayele has been arrested in the UK for illegally
possessing 12 kilos worth of cocaine.

Three others, Abiel Ashitey Armah, Ahmed Abubakar
and Kissi Theophilus have also been arrested in
Ghana for assisting the prime suspect to carry the
substance through the VVIP lounge to the UK.

They have since been charged for abetment of
crime.

The charged sheet intercepted by Asempa FM named
one Alhaji Daud as having intervened with the
three officials to give the suspect the
preferential treatment.

It is not clear if the anonymous Alhaji Daud is
the same top businessman the minister is referring
to, but whose identity she is not ready to reveal
at the moment.

Source - Joy News

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