A United States court has awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas US$18 million in damages including $8m in punitive damages after ruling that populist former New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislator Kennedy Agyapong defamed him...
Until his appointment as Special Prosecutor in 2021 Agyebeng was a partner with Anas Aremeyaw Anas in the law firm of Cromwell Gray LLP and acted as a lawyer for Tiger Eye PI...
The case started after investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas released digital recordings of Adu-Boahen asking for payments to arrange meetings with Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia...
In 2015 21 lower and High Court judges were dismissed after they and several judicial service staff were captured on film by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Tiger Eye PI team taking bribes to influence court outcomes...
Some of the heat on Ofori-Atta dissipated when deputy finance Charles Adu Boahen was sacked on 14 November after investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas published footage apparently showing the minister requesting a $200 000 appointment fee on behalf of Vice-President Bawumia (Dispatches 14/11/22 Treasury team in disarray as finance minister faces probe and his deputy is sacked)...
Agyebeng's credentials were boosted when he represented Anas Aremeyaw Anas the investigative journalist who in 2015 exposed extensive corruption in Ghana's judiciary...
When investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas exposed extensive corruption having secretly recorded interviews within the judiciary in 2015 the then Chief Justice Georgina Wood suspended seven of the 12 High Court judges implicated in the report (AC Vol 57 No 25 A turning point vote for the Black Star)...
Akufo-Addo wants to streamline and strengthen the judiciary which was badly damaged after investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas exposed widespread corruption on the bench triggering an investigation by Chief Justice Georgina Wood...
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