{"id":1152445,"date":"2022-07-18T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/18\/mp-shed-tears-as-court-frees-him-after-being-charged-with-fraud-money-laundering-parliament\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T22:23:48","slug":"mp-shed-tears-as-court-frees-him-after-being-charged-with-fraud-money-laundering-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/18\/mp-shed-tears-as-court-frees-him-after-being-charged-with-fraud-money-laundering-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Shed Tears As Court Frees Him After Being Charged With Fraud, Money Laundering | Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>David Vondee, Member of Parliament (MP) for Twifo Atti-Morkwa, has been acquitted and discharged by an Accra High Court on charges of defrauding by false pretences and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>The MP,\u00a0who seems to be surprised by the court&#8217;s ruling asked his lawyer if he was indeed free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Counsel, am I free forever? He asked.<\/p>\n<p>The court presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh held that the State could not prove the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The MP on hearing the acquittal shed tears in the dock.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator through his lawyer filed a submission of no case after prosecution had closed its case.<\/p>\n<p>The State had arraigned the MP and charged him for allegedly defrauding a private  of $2.4 million and money laundering between August 2015 and July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The MP denied the charges and was admitted to bail in the sum of GHC 2 million in May last year.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Vondee, Member of Parliament (MP) for Twifo Atti-Morkwa, has been acquitted and discharged by an Accra High Court on charges of defrauding by false pretences and money laundering. The MP,\u00a0who seems to be surprised by the court&#8217;s ruling asked his lawyer if he was indeed free. &#8220;Counsel, am I free forever? He asked. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[3413,64,5504,19567,1153,383,2073,11755,857],"class_list":["post-1152445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-fraud","tag-frees","tag-laundering","tag-money","tag-parliament","tag-shed","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}