GoldBod to Deport 3 Indians, Prosecute 3 Others over Illegal Gold Trade
The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has arrested six Indian nationals for violating the GoldBod Act, 2025 (ACT 1140).
According to the Board, three of them will be immediately deported while three others will be subjected to prosecution.
The first three suspects were arrested two weeks ago at Adiembra in the Ashanti Region.
Among the exhibits retrieved from them were an amount of 1.9 million cedis, 4,500 rupees, 4.363 kilograms of gold, two counting machines, a CCTV recorder and an Indian passport.
The second batch of suspects was arrested by the National Security and the GoldBod taskforce at Enyinam in the Eastern Region with gold bars, stacks of cash, and money counting machines.
At a press conference on May 14, the public relations officer of the GoldBod, Prince Minkah, said the first batch of suspects would be deported while the second batch would be prosecuted.
He explained that the decision was due to the fact that the first batch of foreigners were arrested before the deadline for the application for the Goldbod license for gold trading on April 30.
“For the second batch, they will go to court and face the law. This is a warning to every foreigner in Ghana: local gold trading is the sole reserve of the GoldBod.”
The GoldBod stated that any foreigner or individual who wants to continue to be in the trade will have to “apply to the Ghana GoldBod to buy or off-take gold directly from the GoldBod”.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
