Ghana court prisons Chinese public over unlawful gold mining
A Ghanaian court has condemned a Chinese public to jail for unlawful gold mining in the West African country, her legal counselor said on Monday, finishing a case that began in 2017 and shed light on Chinese contribution in the action.
The court in the capital Accra condemned Aisha Huang to four and a half years detainment and a fine of 48,000 Ghanaian cedis ($4,000) for running an unlawful mining activity, Huang's legal counselor Trust Agboado told Reuters.
Huang, who couldn't be gone after remark, at first argued not liable however changed her request to blameworthy as the preliminary advanced.
Agboado said he had requested that the court force a fine and extradite her as opposed to forcing prison time. He and Huang are as yet choosing whether or not to pursue, he said.
Ghana, a gold, oil and cocoa maker, is confronting a scourge of unlawful mining with Chinese nationals blamed for driving a portion of the tasks that have obliterated enormous areas of woods, contaminated water bodies and in some cases infringed on the concessions of huge scope diggers.
Ghana's cocoa controller COCOBOD told Reuters in September that around 150,000 metric lots of cocoa was lost because of carrying and unlawful gold mining, privately known as galamsey, on farmlands in the 2022/23 season.
Huang was known as the 'Galamsey sovereign' in the Ghanaian press.
A few Chinese nationals were brought to court for comparable cases in Ghana in 2021 and 2022.
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