The US firm, Green Global Resources, had accused some high-ranking officials of the Police Service of conniving with some individuals to dupe them of the said amount.
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Mr James Barbieri, the Director of Green Global Resources, at a press conference on Tuesday said some high-ranking officials of the Police Service have connived with some individuals to dupe them of the said amount.
But the Public Affairs Director of the Ghana Police Service, Sheila Abayie Buckman, has said that she is surprised about the action of the US firm, as the firm is aware that the police officers involved in the scam were undergoing disciplinary action.
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“From Police investigations, we realized that some five officers may be part of whatever allegations have been raised against them for misconduct, and these five officers were interdicted and as I speak to you now, they are facing internal disciplinary charges.”
“The docket on them has also been forwarded to the Attorney General’s office for advice and possible prosecution,” DSP Buckman said on Accra-based Citi FM.
She said that instead of the US firm organising a press conference, they could have resorted to the Inspector General of Police’s office “for whatever is not being transparent to them to be made known to them… I believe that, as I have been told, the investigative team has made every result of their investigation that they need to know transparent to them.”
The suspects involved in the case, led by an interdicted East Legon Police Commander, reportedly seized 13 gold bars from the firm under the pretext that the firm was allegedly buying stolen gold.
The then East Legon Police Commander, DSP Emmanuel Basintale and 6 others, have so far been interdicted.
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There are also concerns over whether the gold was pure or fake.
The Police Service has said that the gold in its possession from the deal gone bad is fake.
However, the US firm said that it used its own technical gold testing equipment and “were very convinced of the quality of the gold.”
