The Head of Chambers of The Law Office of Clinton Consultancy, Amanda Akuokor Clinton has expressed confidence in the Attorney General in pursuing the fresh charges filed against the Chief Executive of the defunct gold dealership firm Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah.

The AG has slapped Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1 with 36 counts of offences including abetment, defrauding by false pretences, carrying on deposit-taking business without license, unlawful deposit-taking, money laundering among others.

This is a reduction from the initial 61 charges brought against him.

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Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, September 2, the lawyer said “there is a lot of hope, I think we have a relatively new AG who is trying to distinguish himself from other AGs.

“So, hopefully that will push him to make a mark, and one of the ways is through a high profile case such as this.”

According to her, although the Attorney General's filing of fresh charges against NAM 1 is coming late since the case has taken three years, she commended the AG for moving the case from the Circuit Court to the High Court.

According to her, she believes the reduction in the charges to 36 is because the AG really wants to pursue them.

“I do commend the Attorney General’s Department for at least saying they were very much investigating the matter,” she added.

She noted that the AG can go a step further in the money laundering case since it depicts that NAM 1 was cleaning dirty money with his business.

He also called on the AG to get in touch with countries NAM 1 frequently visited to see the assets he has in other countries.

This, according to her is to enable the retrieval of some of the money for the aggrieved customers.

The Attorney General commenced the prosecution of NAM 1 in 2019 where he was accused of defrauding thousands of customers through his gold dealership firm over millions of cedis.

The case has witnessed a number of adjournments until fresh charges were filed on Wednesday, August 30, 2023.

The new charges come after Mr Appiah Mensah announced plans to release locked-up funds to Menzgold customers after a payment of roughly GH₵650 for verification.

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Subsequently, he reversed the decision to require former clients to purchase a verification Access Card in order to verify transactions and validate claims following strong backlash from his customers and the public.

“Menzgold would cease the production and printing of the PVC Digital Access Cards, which imposes a cost burden,” the defunct company said in a communique.

The company said it is resorting to “the printing of the PIN Codes only, for onward distribution at no cost subject to the following conditions, that; Clients with INVALID status may choose to either walk away or still in the face of the one or several of the 10 invalidity status reasons provided, adamantly proceed to seek redress or review of the invalidity determination, which shall come at a fee to avoid the abuse of our time, human and logistics resources.”