Four Yemini nationals who were arrested in November last year at the Kotoka International Airport by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), have been charged with forgery.

The four, Esmail Yahya Zey ad aka Evra Allerson, Gaafar Eissa Yahya Amer aka Ciro Carlos, Waleed Ahmed Yahya aka Debuchya Allard - all students - and Eissa Yahya Airier, a businessman were charged after they were hauled before an Accra circuit court for allegedly entering Ghana with fake French passports and concealing their real identities.

The accused persons who were to tran­sit in Ghana and continue to France and then to Istanbul in Turkey were arrest­ed by the BNI on November 24, 2015, with different names in their French passports.

 They arrived at KIA on board Ethiopian Airline Flight ET 920.

They reportedly con­cealed their Yemeni identities and feigned French nationalities in an attempt to beat security personnel at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra.

While undergoing arrival procedures, Evra Allerson, Ciro Carlos and Debuchya were found with French passports with different names. A further search on them revealed that all the accused persons had Yemeni passports also.

Their Yemeni passports proved that Aller­son and Carlos had travelled several times to Djibouti in Africa before their trip to Ghana.

It was established after questioning them that one Abdulai Mohammed in Yemen was the one who secured them the French passports and gave them a phone number to call a certain Mohammed in Ghana on arrival.

It is not clear what their real motive of hiding their Yemeni identi­ties was.

However, speaking through an Arabic interpreter, the accused per­sons denied the offence.

The four through their counsel, Dominic Owusu Sekyere, filed a submission of no case before an Accra Circuit Court when they appeared in court on March 9, 2016.

Their lawyer argued that prosecution had failed to make a case against them after calling its witnesses.

They have pleaded not guilty after being charged with forgery.