Update: Alfred Woyome, Accomplices Released

Kapital news can confirm that embattled NDC Financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has been granted bail by an Accra Court. His release is said to have come from the request of the prosecution team.

Kapital news sources at the court said state prosecutors said they were satisfied that release of the suspects will not hamper their work.

Alfred Woyome, who was charged for defrauding the state and conspiracy to commit crime in the controversial fifty one million cedis judgment debt paid him, was granted bail in the sum of GH¢54Million with a surety to be justified after a good word put in by his defence team.

He is required to report to the Police CID headquarters twice a week.

The alleged bankroller of the ruling NDC had been in police custody since his arrest on the February 3. Alfred Agbesi Woyome was refused bail last Monday when he appeared in court.

Two others, implicated in the Woyome scandal, Chief State Attorney, Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh and Paul Asimenu, a Director at the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, were granted bail in the sum of six thousand cedis with two sureties and are also expected to report twice a week to the police.

The case has been adjourned to February 20. It would be recalled that on Monday, 6th February, when the case was first called, Gifty Nerquaye-Tetteh, wife of the Chief State Attorney, Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh, was charged with aiding and abetment of crime was granted bail in the sum of five hundred thousand cedis. She is expected to report to the Police twice weekly.

Alfred Woyome is alleged to have transferred about four hundred thousand cedis from his bank account to Nerquaye-Tetteh’s wife right after the judgment debt was paid.