The High Court has dismissed an application by the accused persons in the ongoing National Petroleum Authority (NPA)–Unified Petroleum Pricing Fund (UPPF) corruption case seeking to have the charges against them struck out.
The ruling allows the substantive trial to continue, according to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), which announced the development in a Facebook post on Wednesday, September 2.
The accused persons had asked the Court to terminate the charges against them, but the High Court dismissed the application as without merit.
The case involves former NPA Chief Executive Officer, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid; former UPPF Coordinator, Jacob Kwamina Amuah; NPA staff member Wendy Newman; Bright Bediako-Mensah; Kwaku Aboagye Acquaah; and three companies — Propnest Limited, Kel Logistics Limited and Kings Energy Limited.
The Republic has brought 54 charges against the accused persons, including corruption and corruption-related offences, extortion, money laundering and conspiracy to commit a crime.
