A 69-year-old German woman who was defrauded in 2010 by two Nigerians is pleading with the Ghanaian government and the German Embassy in Accra to assist her in seizing the thieves’ belongings.
The widow Ms. Waltraud Wiesent stated that a 2015 court ruling convicting Mark LatifA dijum and Benjamin Taofeek Oluwashola of Nigeria ordered the defendants to return €248,000 that they had wrongfully obtained from her under the guise of providing her with gold.
The inmates have interests and properties in Ghana, according to Ms. Wiesent, who made the appeal through the Ghanaian Times, a local newspaper. She urged Mr. Fred Yeboah Dame, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, to step in and assist in locating and seizing the property.
In order to get the money that was taken from the Nigerians, she pleaded with the German Embassy to get in touch with Mr. Dame about the situation.
According to Ms. Wiesent, in order to pay back the loan she took out, her bankers sold her houses and sent the proceeds to Nigerians who claimed to be legitimate gold dealers in Ghana.
Mrs. Afi Kudamor, a current High Court judge, presided over the Accra Circuit Court, which condemned Adijum to eight years of imprisonment at the Nsawam Prisons.
Adijum and Oluwashola were accused of deceiving by false pretense and conspiring to commit crimes. Oluwashola was found guilty and fined GHC $40,000.
Adijum lost his appeal of his conviction before the High Court while he was incarcerated.
Adijum denied the crime during the trial, which saw multiple postponements before the Circuit Court, stating he was a farmer and had never attended school.
The story goes as follows: Latif identified himself as Chris Walters of Nottingham, who does business in Ghana, to Mrs. Wiesent, a German technical engineer.
The prosecutor, Augustine Yirenkyi, Deputy Supervisor of Police (DSP), said the court that the prisoner had informed the German that he possessed large amounts of gold and had requested that she transfer money to buy gold.
The court was informed that Mrs. Wiesent had moved money between her accounts at Ecobank and Guaranty Trust Bank as well as via Money Gram.
According to DSP Yirenkyi, Latif invited Mrs. Wiesent to Ghana twice. During her third visit, the German informed the police about the Nigerians, who were then taken into custody and charged.
Source: newsthemegh.com