We need customers GHS200m not GHS1.68 billion – Menzgold

General News of Friday, July 12, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-07-12

The gold distribution company, Menzgold Ghana Limited, refuted claims that it owed about 16,000 customers in crisis totaling 1.68 billion GHS.

The public information website Daily Graphic reported on Friday, July 12, 2019 that it had seen an indictment sheet revealing allegations of fraud against the company's CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1), as well as than Brew Marketing Consult and Menzgold.

In the indictment, NAM1 is accused of defrauding a Francis Agodzie and 16,000 others of more than 1.68 billion GHS.

However, Menzgold's communications director, Nii Armah Amartefio, told Benjamin Akakpo at the Clbad91.3FM Executive Breakfast Show on Friday, July 12, 2019, that the company "is not in a position to doubt" of what the website has quoted, but will nevertheless continue. go with figures released by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.

Mr. Amarteifio said that after Mr. Ofori-Atta's meeting with Menzgold's injured military clients who had petitioned him about their blocked funds, the Minister of Finance "clearly explained to them that," he said. After the books that they have seen up to now, the amount we [Menzgold] are due to 200 million GHS; it's about 40 million and I checked with my boss, he confirmed it to me. "

He added that the company is determined to pay its customers' customers after winning a deal in Dubai in which the Gulf State ordered Horizon Diamonds to pay NAM1 some $ 39 million for the first time. gold provided by Menzgold.

"We have to pay our customers and we will do what we have to do, and that's what we do," he badured investors.

However, he did not give a deadline for payment but insisted that: "We have the obligation to pay all our customers".

Mr Amarteifio added that several other companies owe Menzgold a debt and that if it succeeds in recovering all these blocked funds, the payment of the principal of all Menzgold customers will not be a problem.

At the same time, NAM1 was indicted by the police and placed in police custody to reappear before the Accra circuit court on July 26, 2019 after arriving in Ghana.

He faces charges of fraud under false pretenses and two counts of having engaged in banking activities without a license, in violation of Article 6 (1) of the 2016 Act. banks and specialized deposit-taking institutions (Law 930).

Its Brew Marketing Consult and Menzgold Ghana Limited have also been accused of defrauding under false pretenses, contrary to sections 20 (1) and 13 (1) of the Criminal Offenses Act 1960 (Act 29).

Pre-trial detention was granted by the court at the request of the police so that the police could complete their investigation within two weeks.

He was arrested today on Friday, July 12, 2019 after spending the night in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service after arriving in Ghana on Thursday.

The young Ghanaian businessman has been under the care of Dubai authorities since last December. He was arrested during his stay in the UAE to recover a considerable amount owed to his company by a businessman.

NAM1, sought by its thousands of aggrieved customers, whose investments have been stalled in the company since last August; as well as the government of Ghana, won two lawsuits against his rival businessman while he was in Dubai.

A red alert from Interpol has been on NAM1's head for several months since being held in Dubai.

The Dubai Supreme Court recently upheld the businessman's victory in a trial court, which had ordered his rival, Emirati, to pay $ 39 million to the Ghanaian.