The Accra Circuit Court will on June 24 begin hearing the case in which the Member of Parliament for Sene, Felix Twumasi-Appiah, and a Spaniard, are facing charges of fraud and stealing in an alleged gold deal. The court presided over by Mr. D.E.K. Daketse, fixed the date for yesterday after the prosecution announced that it had finished with its investigations and was ready for the court to hear the case. The two who are currently on bail are facing three provisional counts of conspiracy to commit crime, defrauding by false pretences and stealing. But their plea have not been taken. Mr. Twumasi-Appiah is on a GH¢lOO,OOO self-cognisance bail while his accomplice, Juan Carlos, is on a GH¢ 150, 000 bail with three sureties in view of the fact that he is not a Ghanaian citizen. The Accra Circuit Court will on June 24 begin hearing the case in which the Member of Parliament for Sene, Felix Twumasi-Appiah, and a Spaniard, are facing charges of fraud and stealing in an alleged gold deal. The court presided over by Mr. D.E.K. Daketse, fixed the date for yesterday after the prosecution announced that it had finished with its investigations and was ready for the court to hear the case. The two who are currently on bail are facing three provisional counts of conspiracy to commit crime, defrauding by false pretences and stealing. But their plea have not been taken. Mr. Twumasi-Appiah is on a GH¢100,000 self-cognisance bail while his accomplice, Juan Carlos, is on a GH¢ 150, 000 bail with three sureties in view of the fact that he is not a Ghanaian citizen. When the case was called yesterday, counsel for the accused persons, Joshua Nimako, apologised to the court for the absence of Twumasi-Appiah who, he said, was indisposed". The absence of the MP, he said, should therefore not be considered as a show of disrespect to the court. Mr. Nimako also prayed the court to order the police to release the passport of Carlos to him to enable him to travel home to organise some money to cater for his hotel accommodation and also see to his sick child. He told the court that the accused persons have even paid the $30,000 in question. But police prosecutor, ASP Dery, opposed counsel's submission on the passport, as it would be difficult to re-arrest Carlos if he should abscond, being a foreigner. On the issue of the payment of the $30,000, the prosecution said that amount was only for one count. "There is $65,000 more left on the two other counts,” he added. After listening to the arguments, the judge refused to order the -release of the passport to Carlos as sought by Counsel and adjourned the case to June 24 for hearing to begin. It is the prosecution's case that the complainant Ju1i Francisco Lozano, a Spanish businessman came to Ghana to transact business. He said in March 2010, a certain Nana Kwame Donkor, another businessman had a transaction with Mr. Lozano for his company to supply Lozano with gold worth $160,000 in three tranches. However after two supplies, Nana Donkor was unable to supply the third tranche of gold following which he promised to refund the remaining money to the complainant. ASP Dery said Nana Donkor contacted the MP to help transfer the money back to the complainant in instalments, since it was not possible to transfer the amount in cash through the banks. Two blank cheques were signed and left with the suspects to facilitate the transfer. The prosecution said the money was to get to Spain through two persons, Ibrahim and Ishmael, and when the complainant sent the money through the account of the two persons in Spain, they bolted with it. In addition, Nana Donkor paid $30,000 as part payment to the police for the money to be given to the complainant. According to the prosecution, the MP got Carlos to go to the office of the Unit Commander of the Commercial Unit, ASP Yaa Tiwaa Danso, where Carlos claimed that Mr. Lozano was sick and could not come to Ghana; hence, instructed him to collect the money on his beha1f. ASP Dery noted that it was after contacting Nana Donkor for the remaining money that the complainant was told that it had been given to the police to be given to him. As a result he said; the complainant contacted the police and he was told the money had been sent to him through his friend Carlos.