Full details: Why NAM1 was arrested in Dubai

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Information indicates that Horizon Royal Diamonds DMCC, a Dubai-based company, was duped by some Ghanaians in a gold business.

While chasing the fraudsters for their money, Menzgold Ghana Company Limited was recommended to the Dubai Company to do business with.

Horizon Royal Diamonds and Menzgold duly established contact.

However, before the deal could be struck, some persons privy to the discussions presented themselves as officials of a gold trading company called Just Gold Company Limited to Horizon Royal Diamonds, with the promise of a better deal, to which officials of the Dubai-based company fell for.

It turned out that Horizon Royal Diamonds alleged later that it parted with some $51 million, for which no gold whatsoever was supplied.

Officials of Horizon Royal Diamonds later reverted to Menzgold’s Nana Appiah Mensah in 2018 to supply them gold, upon which request he is said to have demanded an undertaking not to be linked to the transaction with Just Gold Company Limited, the company Horizon Royal alleges it paid the $51 million.

That undertaking duly arrived, spelling out Menzgold’s disconnection with the deal said to have gone bad and its lack of liability.

Following that undertaking, Menzgold proceeded to supply 750kg of gold to Horizon Royal Diamonds, at an agreed price of $28 million at the time of supply.

“Per the arrangement between the two companies, it is now worth $39 million, and Nana had gone there to facilitate the retrieval of the money when the SWIFT transfer account details the guys in Dubai provided turned out to be fake.

“He wanted his money to come and sort out the current situation with his company, but the guys rather reported him to the Dubai authorities, accusing him of fraud”.

“That is why he was arrested, but God willing, he will be out by Wednesday to return to Ghana,” a source close to Nana Appiah Mensah told Graphic Online.

The source said Menzgold had duly reported the fake SWIFT detail to EOCO, insisting that “his arrest has nothing to do with Ghana police or Interpol; he only wanted his money to come and sort out Menzgold customers.”

“He will come home soon; hopefully by Wednesday he will be freed. The bail bond posted by the Dubai authorities has been met. Ghanaian officials in Dubai even visited him on Sunday, and if they are minded to, they could be telling the public the true story of why NAM1 was arrested.”

Nana Appiah Mensah had landed in Dubai late last year in the hope of retrieving some $39 million owed Menzgold by Horizon Royal Diamonds DMCC for the supply of gold.

Source: The Finder

 

 


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Kennedy Mornah is an Award Winning Ghanaian Journalist with over two decades of experience in the Ghanaian Media landscape spanning the electronic, print and digital media. He is a Media Consultant, a Corporate MC, Radio and TV Host, Founder and Publisher of the Maritime and Transport Digest Newspaper, Businessman, a Go getter and an optimist. He has worked for renowned media organizations including Diamond Fm in Tamale, Luv Fm in Kumasi, Oman Fm in Accra and Starr Fm in Accra In 2017 he received the Reporter of the Year Award at the Ghana Shippers Awards in Accra, Ghana.

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