McDan Convicted for Contempt by High Court. |
A High Court has found respected business tycoon Daniel McKorley,
sometimes known as McDan, guilty of defying a judge's instructions.
The presiding judge, Judge Kweku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo, said in a
report by the state-run news agency Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Tuesday,
February 28, 2023, that he condemned McDan to dispel the myth that the wealthy
and powerful in Ghana may disregard the law with ease.
He has been given a deadline to pay a GH40,000 fine or face a
21-day prison sentence for noncompliance.
According to a GNA report, on May 20, 2020, a man named Al-Hassan
Iddisah filed a contempt lawsuit against the proprietor of the McDan Group
conglomerate for grabbing disputed property in the affluent East Legon area by
force.
The applicant said that from 2002 until McDan forcibly stole the
property from him with the aid of the Madina Circuit Court and certain police
officials, he had been the owner of two pieces of land entrusted to him by his
mother and wife. Al-Hassan Iddisah, however, brought the case to the High
Court, where it was determined that he was the rightful owner of the in dispute
land.
The affluent businessman was reportedly requested to leave the
property for Al-Hassan, but he refused, forcing Iddisah to bring a case of
contempt.
“It is rather a sanction to serve the administration of justice in
the public interest that the law is no respecter of persons and their status in
the society,” the GNA report quoted the judge after before convicting McDan.
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