{"id":10673,"date":"2025-02-15T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T08:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/kwesi-nyantakyi-fraud-case-against-ex-ghana-fa-boss-dropped-after-five-years\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T08:52:44","slug":"kwesi-nyantakyi-fraud-case-against-ex-ghana-fa-boss-dropped-after-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/kwesi-nyantakyi-fraud-case-against-ex-ghana-fa-boss-dropped-after-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Nyantakyi: Fraud case against ex-Ghana FA boss dropped after five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One major issue in the case was how Anas would appear in court as a witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In May 2023 an Accra High Court ruled that the undercover reporter could take to the stand wearing his trademark bead mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a Court of Appeal subsequently overturned that decision, insisting Anas should testify without the mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, state prosecutors submitted a request for a one-month adjournment to work out their next move, but that was denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The five-year-long case was also delayed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-47002878\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale,<\/a> an investigative journalist involved in the Number 12 documentary and a potential witness, by unidentified gunmen in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another charge against Nyantakye, for fraudulently using the name of former Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo, has also been dropped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn93r450lpro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One major issue in the case was how Anas would appear in court as a witness. In May 2023 an Accra High Court ruled that the undercover reporter could take to the stand wearing his trademark bead mask. However, a Court of Appeal subsequently overturned that decision, insisting Anas should testify without the mask. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10675,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions\/10675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}