The son of unlawful mining kingpin, En Huang, popularly identified as Aisha Huang, used to be the day gone by remanded into the custody of Nsawam Medium Security Penal complicated over immigration offence and illegally possessing ammunition. Huang Lei, used to be arrested on the Ahodwo in Kumasi in September, this yr, for persevering with to remain in Ghana after the expiration of his passport and resident

allow. Among the many offences for which he’s before an Accra High Court docket is the 250 rounds of ammunition that were stumbled on in his room, in a search conducted by the entertaining officers, which he also can now not provide a allow for. He has been charged with one count of persevering with to remain in Ghana after expiration of allow opposite to Section 20(1) and 52(1)(D) of the Immigration Act, 2000

(Act 573) and one count of possessing ammunition with out allow. Charged alongside Huang Lei is Huang Hiahua, one other Chinese language nationwide who’s dealing with one count of possessing a forged Chinese language passport with a resident allow. The 2 pleaded now not guilty to the costs levelled in opposition to them by the prosecution and their lawyer, Frank Kumakoh, educated the court docket that he’ll

formally file an application seeking bail for the two pending the trial. He hinted that the accused persons also can seemingly swap their plea on the immigration costs. Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, the presiding ponder, remanded the two into the custody of Nsawam Penal complicated on ground that they’re foreign nationals who discontinue now not own ample social ties in the nation. “The accused persons are

foreign nationals who discontinue now not own ample social ties in some unspecified time in the future of the jurisdiction of this nation. They are thus of excessive flight threat. This might perchance perchance even be in the passion of justice that they’re saved in the custody of the linked authority whereas their trial proceeds,” the court docket added. Justice Marfo ordered the prosecution to file its disclosures and back similar on the defence on or before the next date. She

added that the accused also can as properly file their linked paperwork and back similar on the prosecution in see of piece fifty three of the Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573) and up to now because the immigration offences are involved. The case used to be adjourned to December 13, 2022 for case management conference. The prosecution’s brief reality supplied by Watkins Adama, a Voice Attorney, mentioned on

September 2, 2022, a crew of security officers visited the assign of the accused persons at Ahodwo, Kumasi, where they were arrested following a tip off that some foreign nationals were dwelling in the nation no matter the expiration of their allow. He mentioned the entertaining crew retrieved Huang Lei’s Chinese language passport with a allow issued by the Director of Immigration, which accepted

him to remain in Ghana till January 5, 2022. The accused particular person upon his arrest and interrogation is supposed to own admitted he didn’t own a staunch allow to remain in Ghana. “A search conducted in the room of the first accused particular person (Huang Lei) revealed amongst varied issues, eight (8) packs of Eley shot gun cartridges, containing about 200 and fifty (250) pieces of

ammunition. He used to be now not in a situation to produce a staunch licence for them,” Mr. Adama disclosed. He mentioned Huang Hiahua, on the assorted hand, had in his possession a Chinese language passport bearing his title and affixed to the mentioned passport is what looks to be a Republic of Ghana Voice Allow purportedly issued by the Director of Immigration for a one-yr duration with stop from May perchance presumably 26, 2022. “Nonetheless, investigations disclosed that the supposed allow used to be now not issued by or with the consent or authority of the Ghana Immigration Carrier,” he added.