Customers of Menzgold are pleading with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to help in recovering their frozen funds, even while criminal procedures against the collapsed company’s CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah, continue.
The irate consumers called after the state filed a new charge sheet against Nana Appiah Mensah.
Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM1, is suspected of scamming thousands of Ghanaians who utilised his gold dealership company. He has been charged with 39 charges of defrauding by false pretence, operating in gold dealing without a licence, and money laundering.
Speaking to Citi News, Convener of the Menzgold Customers, Fred Forson, assured that measures are being taken to resolve the matter.
“His Excellency, the President, on compassionate grounds, should also give action to the petition that we submitted to him. That he should order a bailout for affected customers while the criminal proceedings run in court,” he said.
“We want to say that customers should be rest assured that leadership is doing everything possible to ensure that we retrieve the very principle that we invested in Menzgold. We want them to keep heart,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has assured customers of the defunct gold trading company, Menzgold Ghana Limited, of justice.
Dame described the defunct dealership firm as a Ponzi scheme that has left many of its victims homeless, with broken marriages, and some have lost their lives.
He made this known while delivering the keynote address at the 40th International Symposium on International Crime.
“It called itself Menzbank and metamorphosed into a number of names before eventually taking up the name Menzgold. It dealt with the purchase of gold collectables from the public and issued contracts with guaranteed returns to the public without a license from the relevant authorities. I am happy to state that after painstaking investigations, criminal prosecutions have commenced into the perpetrators,” he stated.
