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Abodakpi’s Case Adjourned Sine Die |
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Many sympathisers of Dan Abodakpi — a former Minister of Trade and Industry, who thronged the Court of Appeal yesterday were disappointed when the case was adjourned sine die. |
The former minister is serving a 10-year jail term for causing financial loss of $400,000 to the state.
The sympathisers, many of whom thought that the court would deliver its judgement, packed the court with some of them standing outside.
A clerk of the court announced that the case would not come on because one of the panel members had been taken ill and until he became well, a new date could not be fixed The appellant as well as his lawyers were in court.
Abodakpi, who is the sitting MP for Keta, was on February 5, 2007 sentenced to 10-years inprisonment with hard labour by the Fast Track High Court after being convicted on all seven counts of conspiracy, defrauding by false pretences and wilfully causing financial loss to the state.
His attempt to get a bail pending the appeal failed when the trial court on April 19, 2007, declined to grant his application for bail on the grounds that it was unmeritorious because its refusal would not occasion any miscarriage of justice to him.
The court held that being a sitting MP did not make Abodakpi’s case any exceptional to justify the granting of bail pending an appeal.
The former Trade and Industries Minister was said to have, between May and December 2000, acted — together with the late Victor Selormey, who was a former Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning; Dr Frederick Boadu, a consultant; and other persons with a common purpose — to wilfully cause financial loss of $400,000 to the state through the Trade and
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