THE REPUBLIC vs. KWAME AMPONSAH AND 4 OTHERS

PWAMANG, JSC:- My Lords, this case comes before us upon a reference pursuant to Article 130(2) of the 1992 Constitution by Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe J, sitting in the Financial Division “2” of the High Court, Accra. Before the court is Suit No FT/0012/2017 in which the accused persons stated in the title of the case, at all times material to the reference, were being tried on the offences of conspiracy to commit crime, defrauding by false pretences, money laundering and uttering forged documents, all in relation to a claim by the accused persons that they had gold which they offered to sell to the complainants who are foreigners. In the course of the trial, the prosecution sought to tender evidence in the form of a DVD-CD Rom which contained information extracted from computers and mobile phones belonging to the accused persons and a pen drive containing footage from a CCTV camera at HFC Bank, Accra, which captured some of the accused persons in circumstances alleged to be related ...