Menzgold Saga: Ace Ankomah eliminates his statements of involvement

General News of Thursday, July 25, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-07-25

Lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah dismissed charges that he was involved in the Menzgold and Horizon Royal Diamonds scandal that resulted in the arrest of Nana Appiah Mensah, aka NAM1, managing director of Menzgold Ghana Limited.

In a video posted on social media, a certain Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor had claimed that a United Arab Emirates company, Horizon Royal Diamonds, had contacted the BELA law firm of Ace Ankomah for the represent in a fraud case involving two people, Adewoye Olorunfemi Adetunje, a Nigerian and Charles Opoku. Darko, a Ghanaian.

Mr. Taylor further alleged that after listening to and seeing the pictures of the guilty representatives of the Dubai company, the lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah had agreed to lay charges and help them recover the 50 millions of dollars paid to "fraudsters". "

According to him, Ace Ankomah contacted the former president of EOCO, Dr. KK Amoah, whom he (Taylor) claimed to be the uncle of Ace, in order to help in this case.

But Mr. Ankomah, in a statement, refuted the allegations.

According to the statement, Ankomah's Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa and Ankomah (BELA) law firm was only hired by a lawyer based in Dubai on behalf of an Emirati company.

She said, "The work instruction did not mention or relate to either Menzgold or Nana Appiah Mensah. Neither the company nor I have been involved in any incidents that allegedly occurred in Dubai several months after we first became aware. "

He indicated that BELA had been instructed to continue the process when the incidents in Dubai concerning the Accra case and the Dubai incident were separate and unrelated.

"The client did not ask for our opinion on the Dubai incidents and we did not submit any. Every document or evidence we received from the client and that was intended for the police we handed over to the investigator of the commercial crime unit of the police, Chief Inspector Wisdom Semanu " , is it written.

At the same time, Ankomah denied allegations that Dr. KK Amoah, former director of EOCO, would be his uncle.

The statement read: "He (the boss of EOCO) is a fellow lawyer and I know him very well because we have the same hometown. I also consider him an older friend, as he considers me his superior to the bar. "