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Eight Chinese nationals and one Ghanaian have been arrested as part of a joint National Security operation in relation to the loss of containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at the Tema Port.
Investigators linked cables that were thought to be a component of the missing consignment to a Chinese nationals’ aluminum smelting plant at Shai Hills, which led to the arrest.
As part of continuing efforts to solve the crime, security personnel raided the site in response to intelligence and captured the suspects.
This is the most recent development in the investigation into the ECG container crisis, in which more than 1,300 containers containing vital equipment and electrical wires have vanished.
John Jinapor, the Energy Minister, had earlier declared that the government will begin a criminal probe into the incident.
To find out how the containers were taken out of the port and where they ended up, he emphasized the necessity of a forensic investigation.
“We will launch a criminal investigation into this matter, a forensic one. We ought to determine where and how those containers were taken out of the port and where they ended up. National security, the ports, clearing companies, ECG itself, and all those in the value chain will come under the radar.
“I’m sure that once we launch that criminal investigation, we’ll get to the bottom of it, and the culprits will be brought to book,” he said.
However, the Minister stated in a Thursday, March 27 interview with TV3 that 40 of the missing ECG containers had been found at a Kpone terminal.
He stated that an Indian person has been taken into custody in relation to the matter, and that the suspect says he obtained the containers legitimately last year.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
