{"id":670908,"date":"2019-08-03T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T11:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Alfred Agbesi Woyome<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears to have finally accepted defeat in his unsuccessful legal battles to avoid or at least delay the payment of the GH\u00a251.2 million he fraudule"},"modified":"2019-08-03T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T11:58:59","slug":"attorney-general-bounces-woyome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/03\/attorney-general-bounces-woyome\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Bounces Woyome &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Alfred Agbesi Woyome<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears to have finally accepted defeat in his unsuccessful legal battles to avoid or at least delay the payment of the GH\u00a251.2 million he fraudulently received as judgment debt.<\/p>\n<p>Having lost all the legal battles to reverse an<br \/>\norder to sell his assets to pay off the debt, Mr Woyome has \u2018politely\u2019 written<br \/>\nto the Attorney-General (A-G) requesting a meeting to renegotiate payment plans<br \/>\nfor the remaining GH\u00a246.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>That has also backfired, as the response from<br \/>\nthe Office of the A-G and Minister of Justice shot down the request \u201cfor<br \/>\nobvious reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>GH\u00a251.2<br \/>\nmillion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Woyome was paid GH\u00a251.2 million as judgment<br \/>\ndebt for helping Ghana raise funds to construct stadia towards the hosting of<br \/>\nthe Africa Cup of Nation in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It later turned out that the money was illegally<br \/>\npaid to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier who didn\u2019t<br \/>\ndeserve the whopping amount at the expense of the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court then ordered him to refund<br \/>\nthe money out of which he had paid just GH\u00a24.6 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Property<br \/>\nSale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court presided over by a single<br \/>\njudge, Justice Alfred A. Benin, ordered the state to go ahead and sell four of<br \/>\nWoyome\u2019s properties to defray the debt.<\/p>\n<p>This was after the court had found that Mr Woyome<br \/>\nhad colluded with defunct UT Bank to hide the properties from the state. <\/p>\n<p>The assets include three residential properties<br \/>\n\u2013 two at Trassaco Valley and one at Accra Newton, as well as a quarry at Mamfi<br \/>\nin the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p>The state then filed an application for a<br \/>\nreserve price which has been adopted by the Supreme Court, pegging the price of<br \/>\ntwo of his mansions \u2013 one located at Trasacco Valley and another at Kpehe in<br \/>\nAccra \u2013 at GH\u00a211.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The price of another mansion at Trasacco Valley<br \/>\nand his quarry is yet to be determined as the state strengthens its efforts to<br \/>\nreclaim the money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Renegotiation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Woyome has since written to the A-G for an<br \/>\nopportunity to renegotiate terms of payments in installments.<\/p>\n<p>He also indicated in the letter that his<br \/>\nlawyers intend to file a motion for stay of execution of the Supreme Court<br \/>\norders but wanted audience with the A-G before filing it.<\/p>\n<p>But the A-G in a response signed by Deputy<br \/>\nAttorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, rejected the proposed meeting for<br \/>\nrenegotiation.<\/p>\n<p>The letter indicated, \u201cIn the note and letters you requested a meeting with the Attoney-General\u2019s team to negotiate the outstanding judgment debt. \u201cUnfortunately, the honourable Attorney-General is unable to grant your request for obvious reasons.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred Agbesi Woyome Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears to have finally accepted defeat in his unsuccessful legal battles to avoid or at least delay the payment of the GH\u00a251.2 million he fraudulently received as judgment debt. 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