The Adentan Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant for the immediate arrest of the former CEO of defunct Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, and two others after failing to appear in court over fraud charges.

The other two are Gabriel Kwamigah alias Gabby and Eric Amponsah Bediako also known as Cana.

They have been charged with conspiracy to defraud by false pretence.

The court ruled on Tuesday (2 November) for the three accused persons to appear before it on Thursday but they failed to honour the invitation.😲😲😲

Their lawyer Yaw Dankwah told the court his clients are “unavailable” prompting the police investigator Chief Inspector Maxwell Lanyo to inform the court that the accused persons have declined to respond to several police invitations.

But Lawyer for the three accused persons, Yaw Dankwah, speaking to the media after court proceedings, says his clients should have been served personally with the criminal summons.

“They have never been arrested. They have never been cautioned, yet the police have come to court with four counts of charges again them,” Mr. Dankwah complained.

He explained that they were caught off guard by the charges which came on Tuesday and had asked for an adjournment of the case for two weeks.

Mr. Dankwah said the judge did not grant his request and gave them up till today [Thursday] to be in court.

“Unfortunately, they could not. They are out of the city,” he said.

It is unclear if the warrant is related to the collapse of Menzgold.

Mr. Appiah Mensah had previously been slapped with 13 counts of defrauding by pretenses, money laundering, abetment, and carrying on deposit-taking business without license contrary to Section 6 (1) of the Banks Specialised Deposit-taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930).

This was after he was accused of defrauding 16,000 customers of about GHS 1.68 billion😲😲😲

The case has been adjourned indefinitely….