Wontumi found guilty and convicted

He is still in court awaiting his sentence while his lawyers are mitigating the sentence Chairmam Wonumi jailed 20 years in Samreboi mining concession case Graphic Online’s Justice Agbenorsi reports that Accra High Court sentenced the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, to 20 years in prison in a trial in which he and his company, Akonta Mining Limited, were found guilty on six counts relating to the assignment of mineral rights without ministerial approval and facilitating an unlicensed mining operation.

Corporate veil Citing the exceptions in the seminal case of Morkor v Kuma, the court lifted Akonta Mining's corporate veil, finding no functioning management or executive board within the company.

That was after the court presided over by Justive Audrey Kocuvie-Tay held that The prosecution's case was found that Chairman Wontumi and Akonta Mining permitted Henry Okoom and Michael Gyedu Ayisi to undertake mining activities on the company's concession without securing the prior approval of the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, and that they thereby facilitated illegal mining on the land.