{"id":1265058,"date":"2022-12-14T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/ato-essiens-supposed-accomplice-not-guilty-freed-by-court\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:27:41","slug":"ato-essiens-supposed-accomplice-not-guilty-freed-by-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/ato-essiens-supposed-accomplice-not-guilty-freed-by-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ato Essien&#8217;s supposed accomplice not guilty; freed by court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"403\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Court\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Court.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"403\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Court.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Court\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Accra High Court has found the third accused in the case regarding defunct Capital Bank not guilty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reverend Fitzgerald Odonkor was therefore acquitted of his charges including abetment on Tuesday, December 13.<\/p>\n<p>He was cited in the case filed by the state after 26 charges were levelled against former Managing Director of the defunct Capital Bank William Ato Essien and two others \u2013 Tetteh Nettey and Kate Quartey-Papafio.<\/p>\n<p>But presiding judge Eric Kyei Baffour found Rev Odonkor not guilty of his charges and, therefore, acquitted him.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Ato Essien, who pleaded guilty to his charges, cited a former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, on debt recoveries rather than prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>His repayment proposition was, therefore, agreed to by the presiding judge.<\/p>\n<p>Per the terms of the agreement, he is to pay back GH\u00a290 million in total: an initial GH\u00a230 million and GH\u00a260 million in 3 installment to the state.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra High Court has found the third accused in the case regarding defunct Capital Bank not guilty. Reverend Fitzgerald Odonkor was therefore acquitted of his charges including abetment on Tuesday, December 13. He was cited in the case filed by the state after 26 charges were levelled against former Managing Director of the defunct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265058","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=1265058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}