BONIFACE KWABENA AMANDI AND MOHAMMED WOLLEY, FAWAZI WALLEY, BASSAM KABARA AND ABDUL L. MIKATI [2000]DLCHRAJ5852

BONIFACE KWABENA AMANDI AND MOHAMMED WOLLEY, FAWAZI WALLEY, BASSAM KABARA AND AB... [2000]DLCHRAJ5852

Date	2000-08-31
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/300/99/1565
Citation No.	[2000]DLCHRAJ5852

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2000]DLCHRAJ5852
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">BONIFACE KWABENA AMANDI<o:p></o:p>(COMPLAINANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">MOHAMMED WOLLEY, FAWAZI
WALLEY, BASSAM KABARA AND ABDUL L. MIKATI <o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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Our
Ref: CHRAJ/300/99/1565&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
31/8/2000<o:p></o:p>

</div>commissioner:<o:p></o:p>BENJAMIN K. OPPONG DEPUTY COMMISSIONER<a name="_gjdgxs"></a>
LEGAL/OPERATIONS <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
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</div>This complaint presents a disturbing set of facts.<o:p></o:p>The plaint was lodged with the
Commission on the 31 May 1999 by Boniface Kwabena Amandi (complainant) the
Managing Director of Aluminium Enterprises Limited (AEL) a company registered
under the laws of Ghana with its registered offices in Tema. The respondents
against whom the complainant had his grievance were Mohammed Wolley, Fawazi.
Wolley. Bassam Kabara and Abdul L. Mikati. They are Lebanese nationals.<o:p></o:p>The controversy arose in the
operation and running of the AEL. The facts narrated in the complaint of May
1999 were that the AEL received a grant of US$6.5 million under the Lome III
Convention from the Western African and Caribbean Department of the European
Investment Bank (EIB) for the purpose of expanding and modernizing the AEL
plant; as a condition EIB officials were sent in to manage the project and
supervise the disbursement. Two British consultants initially sent in could not
cope with pace of the work and therefore were withdrawn and replaced with a
German consultant called Wolfgang Trosch. According to the complainant Mr.
Trosch totally alienated him from the operation of the company confined him to
his house with a paltry salary of $600,000.00 (US$250) per month. This was at a
time when Mr. Trosch allocated to himself a salary of US$12,000.00 per month
and started indulging in shady financial deals in the company. In collusion
with the 1st respondent, Mr. Trosch terminated the appointment of a large
number of the company's key personnel who had been employed by the complainant
without any benefits. The complainant further alleged that Mr. Trosch and the
1st respondent siphoned huge sums of money from the company account both in
local and foreign currency that they again fraudulently inserted a figure of
¢60,000,000.00 in an indenture to appear as though the AEL had sold a plot of
land to them and when he questioned the conduct of misuse of the company funds
and the fraudulent acts, Mr. Trosch parked out of the company, took away
stocks, material and properties of the company and left it in 'ruins'.<o:p></o:p>Because of the conduct discussed above the complainant said he
sent petition to the Office of the President, the Commissioner of Police, the
Director of BNI, the Director, Serious Fraud Office and the Consular German
Embassy, Accra.<o:p></o:p>The complainant stated in his complaint that he made the complaint
to the bodies mentioned because he intended to frustrate Mr. Trosch from
leaving the country without accounting for his mismanagement of AEL. The
complainant failed in that endeavour; he was rather arrested and prosecuted for
the deceit of a public officer, before an Accra Community Tribunal; the
conviction and sentence were later over turned by the Regional Appeal Tribunal.
During these processes Mr. Trosch succeeded in fleeing the country without
giving an account of his management of AEL which was drain of funds and heavily
indebted to many financial institutions and companies. Faced with the situation
as narrated above the complainant came before the Commission for the following
reliefs:<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">The return of the company's
 properties, materials and stock taken away by Mohammed Wolley and others.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">&nbsp;The return of the company's huge foreign
 currency and other funds taken away by Mohammed Wolley to enable his
 company to survive and continue to offer employment to the workers.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">To ensure that the criminal aspect of
 his complaint is pursued on the company's behalf by the relevant
 government agencies.<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; border: none;">