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Court orders AG to justify Woyome's appeal

The court directed the AG to file their response to a subsequent Defense filed by lawyers of Alfred Woyome by the 22nd of December 2015.

The Attorney General has been given two ultimatum to justify why the court of appeal should overturn a judgment which saw businessman Alfred Woyome cleared of fraudulently securing 51 million cedis from the state.

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The AG earlier this year filed an an appeal against the ruling of a which High Court acquitted and discharged Alfred Woyome for the offences of defrauding the state of GH¢51 million by false pretence and causing financial loss to the State.

According the AG "the judge erred in law when he stated that the prosecution had woefully failed to establish a case against the accused when he had established a prima facie case against him."

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The case has been adjourned to January 12, 2016.

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