{"id":1217599,"date":"2022-10-06T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/foreigner-who-attempted-bribing-police-after-wrongful-u-turn-fined\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:20:36","slug":"foreigner-who-attempted-bribing-police-after-wrongful-u-turn-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/foreigner-who-attempted-bribing-police-after-wrongful-u-turn-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigner who attempted bribing police after wrongful U-turn fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Ukrainian national who attempted to bribe a police officer has been convicted and fined a sum of GH\u00a22400.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian, Serhri Kovtun, made an illegal U-turn on the Accra Tema motorway on October 5, 2022, at the Community 18 junction when he was intercepted by <strong>Citi TV<\/strong>\u2019s War Against Indiscipline campaign team.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrest, he offered GH\u00a2400 to the police, which was used as evidence against him in court.<\/p>\n<p>The La Motor court after assessing the video evidence presented by prosecutors found the accused person guilty.<\/p>\n<p>He was slapped with five counts of offences which included attempted bribery of a police officer, obstructing traffic, and wrongful U-turn amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>His vehicle was also impounded at the Airport police station.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/EeH2aAXOGhE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/EeH2aAXOGhE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian national who attempted to bribe a police officer has been convicted and fined a sum of GH\u00a22400. The Ukrainian, Serhri Kovtun, made an illegal U-turn on the Accra Tema motorway on October 5, 2022, at the Community 18 junction when he was intercepted by Citi TV\u2019s War Against Indiscipline campaign team. Upon his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217599","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=1217599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}