Eric Amoateng forgery case to be ruled on in July

Effah

May 16, 2016 12:19 PM

Eric Amoateng is a politician and a former Member of Parliament in Ghana. He was arrested for drug trafficking in 2005 in the United States and jailed for drug trafficking.

A circuit court in Accra has set July 5, 2016, to give judgment on the case involving a former NPP legislator for the Nkoranza North constituency, Eric Amoateng who had been accused of possessing a forged passport.

Eric Amoateng, who completed serving a 10-year jail term in the USA on a drug-related offence has pleaded not guilty to the charge of possessing a forged document.

Mr. Amoateng pleaded not guilty and was subsequently admitted to a GH¢200,000 bail with three sureties.

According to the prosecution during the trail of the case, Amoateng was on December 11, 2005, arrested in the United States for possessing heroin valued at $6 million and was tried, convicted and later sentenced to a 10-year prison term which ended July 30, 2014 where he was released.

They further stated that about 2.20 p.m. on August 7, 2014, Amoateng arrived at the Kotoka International Airport and during his arrival formalities, he was found to be in possession of a Ghanaian passport with the number H02347080.

The passport, the prosecution said, was in the name of one Barbara Inkum and was issued on February 23, 2009 at a time when Amoateng was in prison in the USA.

The prosecution said analysis of the passport by the Document Fraud Office of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) showed that the passport was a forged one as its bio data page had been substituted.

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