The Court of Appeal has given the Attorney General a December 22 deadline to file detailed documents and responses justifying why businessman Alfred Woyome must be imprisoned for fraudulently securing 51 million cedis from the state.
The High Court acquitted and discharged Alfred Woyome for the offences of defrauding the state of GH¢51 million by false pretence and causing financial loss to the State.
But the Attorney General, Marrieta Brew Appiah-Oppong, is now challenging that verdict at the appeals court.
The court has directed the AG and the lawyers for Mr. Woyome to file all necessary responses and documents by December 22.
Alfred Woyome
The case itself has been adjourned to January 12 when a date will be fixed for judgement. The original case that saw the acquittal of Mr. Woyome at the high court was presided over by controversial judge John Ajet-Nasam who has since been allegedly captured on camera taking bribes in a different case.
Justice Ajet Nassam has already been suspended.
Ajet Nassam
The Attorney General on appeal has argued that “The judge erred in law when he stated that the prosecution had woefully failed to establish a case against the accused when he had established a prima facie case against him.”
The GNA reports that the notice of appeal also stated that the judgment could not be supported, having regard to the evidence adduced at the trial.
The AG also argues that “the finding of the trial judge that persons such as Betty Mould-Idrissu, Honourable Barton Odro, Samuel Nerquaye Tetteh and Paul Asimenu were material witnesses and failure to call them was fatal to the case of the prosecution was wrong in law.”
The AG also argues that Justice Ajet Nassam “erred by displaying a biased assessment of the evidence of the prosecution and mounting unwarranted attacks on the prosecution. We expect to know more when the AG files all additional details by December 22.”
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