[2023]DLCA17140 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk152849823"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#00B0F0">EUGENE ASIAMAH BOADI<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">APPELLANT</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#00B0F0">THE REPUBLIC</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:84.65pt center 234.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO: H2/13/22 DATE: 26</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10px;">TH </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">JANUARY 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">DORA QUAYE (SSA) FOR THE REPUBLIC,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">THEOPHILUS DONKOR FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">CORAM</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">SENYO DZAMEFE, JA (PRESIDING), AMMA GAISIE, JA , NOVISI ARYENE, JA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">DZAMEFE, JA<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>accused/appellant<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>charged<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">following;-</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNT <span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">ONE</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing: -.1pt">STATEMENT</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing: -.1pt">OF</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing: -.1pt">OFFENCE</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">FRAUDULENT<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width: 150%"> </span>BREACH<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>OF<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>TRUST<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>CONTRARY<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>TO<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>SECTION<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>128<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>OF<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>THE CRIMINAL OFFENCES ACT 1960 (ACT 29)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PARTICULARS<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>OF<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">OFFENCE</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">Eugene Asiamah Boadi; Chartered Accountant: Between September and December<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>2015, in Accra, in the Greater Accra Region, did dishonestly appropriate an amount of One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>State Dollars ($1,500.00.00), which was vested in you as a Trustee on behalf of Abena Nyantakyi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNT <span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">TWO</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing: -.1pt">STATEMENT</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing: -.1pt">OF</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing: -.1pt">OFFENCE</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">MONEY LAUNDERING CONTRARY TO SECTION 1(1) (C) OF THE ANTI MONEY<span style="letter-spacing:4.0pt;mso-font-width:150%"> </span>LAUNDERING ACT 2008 (ACT 749)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">PARTICULARS<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>OF<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">OFFENCE</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book An