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The National Security Coordinator Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey says he suspects the 1.5 tons of gold ferried from Ghana and intercepted at Turkey may turn out to be a scam.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy strong gut feeling is that this whole thing will turn out to be a scam\u201d, Gbevlo Lartey told Joy FM in an interview on Thursday February 14.<\/p>\n
He said the documentation backing the gold export from the Geological Survey Department indicated that the cargo was just rock samples of gold which had no commercial value.<\/p>\n
He therefore said he strongly doubted if the cargo was real gold.<\/p>\n
The 80 million dollar gold cargo sparked a wave of controversy in Ghana recently after Turkey officials impounded it aboard a North African Aircraft.<\/p>\n
XYZ News broke the story of the arrest of two top officers of the Geological survey Department on Wednesday February 12, 2013 in connection with the gold scandal.<\/p>\n
The two were picked up by operatives of the National Security on that afternoon.<\/p>\n
They were Deputy Director Dr. Thomas Adu and Senior Technical Officer Justice Adom Akwah.<\/p>\n
The government of Ghana was suspected to be behind the 1.5 tons of Gold which was en-route to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country with strict international trade restrictions but was seized in Turkey.<\/p>\n
The cargo was allegedly meant to defray some financial obligations Ghana had toward Iran.<\/p>\n
President Mahama launched investigations into the matter when the story broke and also debunked the financial commitment allegations.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigations revealed that the transaction was purely private with no official government involvement.<\/p>\n
In an earlier statement by the Information Minister last week, Two Ghanaians \u2013 Peter Bedzrah and Fredrick Kojo Essumang, operating under the corporate identity of Omanye Gold Mining Ltd from a house at Tanta Hill in Achimota without visible signs of a corporate entity, were mentioned to be involved in a transaction to supply gold to one Vahid Moradi Moghaddam in Iran.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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