Source: newsthemegh.com
The lawsuit against Sedinam Attionu Tamakloe, the former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), has been continued by the High Court in Accra until April 20, 2023.
Since October 2021, Mrs. Ationu Tamakloe, who is on trial with Daniel Axim, a former Chief Operations Officer (COO), has been absent from the courtroom.
The sureties were required to surrender their sureties and pay the GHc5 million bond amount after the court decided that she had “absconded.”
The court also approved the prosecution’s request for the trial to be held in absentia on February 24 of last month (in her absence).
The trial was deferred on Tuesday, March 28 in court when the case was called for the first time following the judge’s order for the trial to continue.
The attorneys for the second defendant, Daniel Axim, lead by Attorney Augustines Obour, requested an adjournment in a letter to the court. Augustines Obour was anticipated in court to finish his final two hours of cross-examining the final prosecution witness.
As asked by the attorney in a formal letter, Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, a Judge of the Court of Appeal sitting as an additional High Court judge, has postponed the case till April 20.
The former CEO of MASLOC and Daniel Axim, a former COO of MASLOC, are on trial for wilfully causing the state to suffer financial damage.
However, Mrs. Tamakloe had been missing from the trial since October 2021, leading the court to declare that she had “absconded.”