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Ato Essien wants charges dropped, moves to refund ¢27.5m to state

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22 May 2020
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Ato Essien wants charges dropped, moves to refund ¢27.5m to state

The founder of Capital Bank William Ato is said to have begun negotiations with the Attorney General to have some of the charges brought against him dropped.

This was disclosed in court by lawyers for Mr Essien, Thursday.

According to the lawyers who led by Thadeus Sory, they are engaging the A-G based on section 35 of the courts’ act.

This allows for an offer of compensation or restitution in respect of some the charges brought against accused persons.

According to the lawyers of Mr Essien they had already indicated to EOCO that their client was willing and ready to return some ¢27million to the state.

The lawyers revealed he has paid close to ¢1.4 million and also given out some 19 newly cleared cars from the port to state.

The Attorney General’s office in response confirmed the negotiations and informed the court that they will consider it.

The judge Justice Kyei Baffor adjourned the case to the 18th of June for the two parties to report back to him.

Mr. Ato Essien is facing trial, with three former executives of the defunct bank —Fitzgerald Odonkor, Kate Quartey-Papafio and Tetteh Nettey for 26 charges leveled them.

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The prosecution, led by the Attorney-General (A-G), Gloria Afua Akuffo, accused the four people of engaging in various illegal acts.

This led to the dissipation of the ¢620 million liquidity support given to Capital Bank by the BoG between June 2015 and November 2016.

It is the case of the A-G that Essien, with Odonkor’s aid, transferred the liquidity support to certain companies either controlled by him or in which he had an interest.

According to the A-G, ¢130 million of the liquidity support was transferred to MC Management Services, which was later presented to the BoG as the initial capital to set up Sovereign Bank, another bank in which Essien had an interest.

She further alleged that between June and October 2015, Essien, aided by Odonkor, appropriated ¢c27.5 million of the liquidity support by carrying it in jute bags.

“The money was purportedly used as payment for business promotion,” she told the court.

Ms Akuffo also accused Essien of giving some liquidity support to his cronies in the form of a loan to be used to buy shares in Capital Bank.

With regard to Quartey-Papafio, the A-G said as part of the scheme to further dissipate the GH¢620 million liquidity support, Essien transferred ¢70 million of the money into Quartey-Papafio’s bank account at Cal Bank.

She further accused Quartey-Papafio of trying to withdraw the money in 2017, even though she was aware that Capital Bank had collapsed and was in receivership.

The withdrawal, the A-G submitted, was, however, prevented by the receivers of Capital Bank.

“Stealing with consent of owner.”

During his application for bail, counsel for Quartey-Papafio, Dr Dominic Ayine, a former Deputy A-G, rebutted the facts presented by the A-G.

He described the case as a ground-breaking one in the country’s jurisprudence.

“This is going to be the first case in the history of this country that stealing has occurred with the consent of the owner,” counsel contended.

Making his case, he argued that the ¢620 million liquidity support was essentially a loan that was granted to Capital Bank by the BoG, which was supposed to be paid with interest.

“Essentially, this was money belonging to Capital Bank,” he said.

Counsel further submitted that per Section 60 of the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992), there was nothing wrong with a lending institution giving out loans for people to buy shares in that institution

Source: myjoyonline

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