Ghana arrests three Indian nationals suspected of smuggling gold
me-metals: Ghana has arrested three Indian nationals for allegedly smuggling gold out of the West African nation for the past decade.
According to me-metals cited from mining.com, The three were arrested at their private residence in Kumasi, the second biggest city on a tip off, Ghana Gold Board said in a statement on X.
An amount of 1.9 million cedis ($133,333), 4,500 rupees, 4.36 kilograms of gold and two counting machines were found on the suspects, whose ages are 42, 35 and 22, it said. A CCTV recorder and an Indian passport were also found in their possession, it said.
Ghana is Africa’s top gold producer. The country’s gold exports rose more than 50% to $11.6 billion in 2024. Black-market trading of the metal is induced by small-scale mining activity, which represents about a third of output.
source: mining.com
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