The Accra Circuit Court has remanded the Managing Director of Market Direct Company Limited, Mr Michael Ayache, and two clearing agents into prison custody for allegedly importing 15 kilogrammes of drugs suspected to be cocaine in a consignment of yoghurt shipped into the country.
With Mr Ayache in the dock were Isaac Quansah and Mohammed Salami. All three have been charged with the illegal importation of narcotic drugs. The court did not take their pleas but remanded them into prison custody to reappear on January 15, 2007.
The prosecution's case was that on December 12, this year, the Organised Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service had information that some drugs had been concealed in a container loaded with other goods.
The container, with registration number MSKY 6646380 and imported by Market Direct Company Limited, a company located on the Spintex Road in Accra, had arrived from Peru and was awaiting clearance at Maersk Sealand, Tema.
It said when the container was opened on December 12, 2006, in the presence of the police, officials of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and the clearing agents, a bag found on top of imported yoghurt drinks had 15 slabs of narcotic drugs suspected to be cocaine in it.
The prosecution said Mr Ayache was arrested but he denied any knowledge and ownership of the drugs. It said Mr Ayache claimed to have imported the yoghurt on the Internet through an agent known as Claudio Mollo in Argentina.
The prosecution said Quansah and Salami were also arrested to assist in investigations.
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If the bag of narcotics was found just on top of the yoghurt in the container, then a simple analogy could infer that,its a plot for the owner of the container. simply because if the guy intend to smuggle the stuff into the country he would have arranged that the narcotic be embeded, more or less hidden under the container, beneath the yoghurt. This must be carefully investigated to avoid wrong judgement!