{"id":31591,"date":"2023-04-18T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=31591"},"modified":"2023-04-18T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:06:34","slug":"aljazeera-documentary-akufo-addo-is-not-alistair-mathias-lawyer-kow-essuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/04\/18\/aljazeera-documentary-akufo-addo-is-not-alistair-mathias-lawyer-kow-essuman\/","title":{"rendered":"AlJazeera Documentary: Akufo-Addo Is Not Alistair Mathias\u2019 Lawyer \u2013 Kow Essuman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attempts to link <a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/tag\/president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo\/\">President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/a> to Canadian Gold smuggler and money launderer Alistair Mathias have been refuted by the President\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the final episode of Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover investigation into Mathias\u2019 gold smuggling and money-laundering activities across Africa, he boastfully claimed to have relationships with various presidents on the continent including President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He described Ghana\u2019s President as a good friend and alleged that the President was his lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a tweet on Sunday 16 April 2023, Essuman wrote that: \u201cThe President has not been in private practice since 2000, neither has the President nor his law firm, Akufo-Addo, Prempeh and Co. acted as a lawyer for this Alistair Mathias or Guldrest\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe President does not know this Mathias or Guldrest. Ignore the spurious allegations\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some members of the opposition <a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/tag\/national-democratic-congress-ndc\/\">National Democratic Congress (NDC)<\/a> latched on to these claims and raised various accusations against the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the claims have been denied by legal counsel to the President, Kow Essuman who revealed that President Akufo-Addo had not been in private practice as a lawyer since 2000 and his legal chambers has not in any way acted as lawyers to Alistair nor any of his associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mathias is a gold trader with expertise in designing money laundering schemes, a skill that he claims has given him access to heads of states across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posing as Chinese criminals seeking to launder money from Africa, Al Jazeera\u2019s investigative team caught up with Mathias who spilled out his modus operandi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called financial architect also boasted about his alleged relationships with Presidents of some countries and the king of Swaziland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no head of states or president that either of us can\u2019t get to on this continent. Next door in Swaziland, the king is a close friend of mine. Zambia\u2019s President is a close friend of mine. DRC, the president has invited me several times to come build a refinery\u201d, he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to link President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to Canadian Gold smuggler and money launderer Alistair Mathias have been refuted by the President\u2019s lawyer. In the final episode of Al Jazeera\u2019s undercover investigation into Mathias\u2019 gold smuggling and money-laundering activities across Africa, he boastfully claimed to have relationships with various presidents on the continent including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4836,1648,13052,10633,11264,5369,11017,7421,6693,913,597,920,192,5918,10197,10342,10776,10423,5612,10346,281,3805,7669,11431,6348,594,6137],"class_list":["post-31591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-akufo","tag-aljazeera","tag-allegations","tag-architect","tag-canadian","tag-chinese","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-drc","tag-episode","tag-ghana","tag-gold","tag-investigation","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-mine","tag-money","tag-money-laundering","tag-ndc","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-refinery","tag-us","tag-who","tag-zambia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}