An Accra High Court has threatened to release four alleged accomplices of Aisha Huang, who are in police custody over alleged illegal mining activities due to the absence of interpreters.
“I will adjourn the case for the last time, if we don’t get these interpreters, I will release the accused persons either conditionally or unconditionally”.
“The case is hereby adjourned to November 21,” the Court presided over by Mrs Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, said on Tuesday.
The judge said this when three Chinese nationals namely: Shi Yang, alias Philip, Li Wei Guo and Shi Mei Zhi and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen, a Vietnamese national, appeared before her at the Criminal Court 5 division of the High Court.
When sitting resumed on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, the court indicated that it had not been able to secure a Vietnamese interpreter and that the Chinese Interpreter who was in court at the last sitting had also travelled outside the jurisdiction.
The Registrar of the Court said a letter had been written to the Institute of Languages for a Vietnamese interpreter.
The Registrar added that the Court had also reached out to the Chinese Interpreter who was out of the jurisdiction, and he had agreed to do the interpretation via zoom but failed to answer his calls during the sitting.
