NACOB donates Nayele assets to orphanage
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has donated some items seized
from Nayele Ametefe, the Ghanaian/Austrian drug baron to three
institutions - an orphanage and two rehabilitation centres in Ghana.
The items including furniture were seized from Night Angels, a shop
which belonged to Nayele. The items were on Wednesday morning presented
to the three centres at Korle Bu, Ashaiman and Medie.
Nayele Ametefe was arrested at the Heathrow Airport in November 2014
and sentenced to 8 years 8 months imprisonment by a court in the United
Kingdom (UK) in 2015 for transporting 12kg of cocaine into the UK.
Confiscation
NACOB and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) filed an
application on December 3, 2015 praying the court to grant an order for
them to confiscate the properties of Nayele.
The properties included two houses, one at East Legon in Accra and
one at Pease in the Ashanti region, an electrical shop known as Night
Angels Enterprise, located at Dzorwulu, and six Fidelity Bank accounts
with total cash of approximately GH¢23,000.
The court, in a ruling on April 6, 2016 granted the applications and
ordered the confiscation of the electrical shop and the six bank
accounts, stating that the properties were derived from the proceeds of a
crime.
The confiscation order, however, did not include two houses in
dispute due to a suit by Nayele’s mother, who is claiming that the
houses belonged to her [mum] and not Nayele.
The houses are at the moment the subject of a legal battle between the mother of convicted drug peddler and the state.
Nayele’s mother, Madam Akua Adubofo, claims the house, located at
East Legon in Accra, and another at Pease in the Ashanti Region, belong
to her and not her daughter.
She subsequently filed a suit in 2016 at the Financial and Economic
Crimes Division of the Accra High Court seeking to prevent the Narcotic
Control Board (NACOB) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO)
from confiscating the two houses, after her daughter’s imprisonment in
2015.
But in a twist of events, the Head of Ratings at the AMA, Mr Emmanuel
Anerboye Abbey, who is a witness in the case, told the court early June
2017 that the house was registered in the name of Ruby Adu Gyamfi, aka
Nayele Ametefe.
Mr Abbey, who was giving his evidence–in–chief, stated that the AMA captured the said property on its valuation list in 2006.
“The property was finally registered in the name of Ruby in 2013. Therefore, per the rating list, the owner is Ruby,” he said.
The case is still pending.
Source: Graphic.com.gh
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