{"id":1204536,"date":"2022-09-14T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/1641-chinese-illegal-miners-repatriated-between-2009-and-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:37:09","slug":"1641-chinese-illegal-miners-repatriated-between-2009-and-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/1641-chinese-illegal-miners-repatriated-between-2009-and-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"1,641 Chinese illegal miners repatriated between 2009 and 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn this picture, five Chinese nationals who were granted bail by the Bekwai Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region for engaging in illegal mining were re-arrested for involvement in the same act in September 2017 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A total of 1,641 Chinese nationals involved in illegal mining in Ghana, were arrested and repatriated between 2009 and August 2022.<\/h2>\n

This is according to data compiled by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), which shows that\u00a01,018 were repatriated between 2009 and 2016.<\/p>\n

It is made up of nine in 2009, 43 in 2010, none in 2011, 130 in 2012, 713 in 2013 and 74 in 2014.<\/p>\n

In 2015, 21 were repatriated and 28 were repatriated in 2016 to bring the total number in that period to 1018.<\/p>\n

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In 2017, 36 were repatriated followed by 160 in 2018, 376 in 2019, 28 in 2020, 11 in 2021 and 22 by August 2022 to bring the total in this period to 623.<\/p>\n

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In all, a total of 3,800 are said to be voluntary repatriations in the period between 2009 and 2013.; 2017-36; 2018-160; 2019-376; 2020-28; 2021-11 and 2022-12.<\/p>\n

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