[ 2017-03-21 ]

Mr Emmanuel Basintale

East Legon Police Commander, 4 others to face service enquiry
The East Legon Police Commander, Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mr Emmanuel
Basintale, and his four police accomplices are to
face a police service enquiry for misconduct
following their alleged involvement in a GH¢1.3
million gold deal.

The five, who were arrested by the Criminal
Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana
Police Service, have been interdicted and are
helping the police in their investigations.

The Director of the Police Public Affairs
Directorate, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, said
after the service enquiry by the Police
Administration, the dockets on the five would be
forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Department
for advice.

The arrest of Mr Basintale and his accomplices
followed intensive investigations by the CID from
2016.

Suspects

The CID, which effected the arrest, has given the
names of the four other policemen as RSM John
Savour, General Corporal Baleto Buafour, General
Corporal Ignatius Asamoah Mensah and Detective
Corporal Cyrus Conduah.

The civilian suspects are Anthony Yaw Osei, alias
Wofa; Frederick Kofi Appiah, alias Nana Agyei;
William Hansua and George Yeboah.

Two others — a chief and a queenmother from
Tarkwa in the Western Region — are currently at
large.

The group, believed to be led by DSP Basintale, is
alleged to have defrauded Green Global Resources
Company Limited of GH¢1.3 million under the
pretext of selling 13 gold bars to the company.

DSP Arthur said investigations revealed that DSP
Basintale had been involved in many gold deals in
which his gang offered the gold bars to
prospective buyers, but as soon as payment was
made the police went in to seize the gold bars and
arrest both the buyers and the sellers.

Gold deals

He said the complainant in the gold deal that
exposed DSP Basintale was Green Global Resources,
a licensed dealer in gold and other minerals
which, in November last year, contacted Adedayo
Jalil Adedotum to assist the company to purchase
gold bars for export.

After he had agreed to help, Adedayo arranged a
meeting among the company, its bankers, Courage
Gesepe, a gold dealer, and another person whose
name was given only as Frank, also a gold dealer.

During the meeting, Gesepe offered 20 kilogrammes
of gold for sale at $31,000 per kilogramme, to
which the company agreed, but requested that it
would have to test the gold.

At a later meeting, Gesepe presented 13 gold bars
to be tested. Eleven of the bars turned out to be
pure 22 carat gold, while the remaining two were
20 carat and the company paid GH¢1.3 million for
the 11 bars which met its required purity.

Suddenly, four policemen appeared at the hotel, in
the company of Yeboah, and arrested the group,
claiming they were selling stolen gold.

Case referred

Dissatisfied with the conduct of the East Legon
Police, Green Global Resources reported the matter
to the CID, which began investigations into the
case.

When DSP Basintale was asked to produce the 13
gold bars at the CID Headquarters, they turned out
to be fake gold bars.

Source - Graphic.com.gh

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