$20m wee suspect caged
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The accused, Kofi Appianin Ennin, was arrested through a collaboration between the UK security agencies and Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) when the drug had successfully left the shores of Ghana for that country.
The businessman is facing a two-count charge each of exportation of narcotic drug without licence from the minister of health and possession of narcotic drug without lawful authority.
According to the prosecution led by Fred K. Awindago, an Assistant State Attorney, Ennin, between January 15 and 29, 2014 at the Takoradi Harbour, exported from Ghana to the UK, 6,240kgs of the drug without licence.
The prosecution also alleged that between 15th January and 10th February, 2015...
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