Embattled Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has been released after spending three nights in police custody.
Wontumi’s release comes after he fulfilled bail conditions amounting to GH₵25 million imposed across two separate illegal mining cases pending against him.
Earlier, on October 7, he had failed to meet the bail imposed in the said cases before the Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra.
In one of the cases, the court granted him GH₵15 million bail with two sureties, while a second court later imposed an additional GH₵10 million bail, also with two sureties, one to be justified with landed property.
The court further ordered that Wontumi report to investigators once every week for the first month and not travel outside the country without express permission.
The embattled NPP chairman faces multiple mining-related charges, including unlawfully undertaking mining operations and facilitating environmental destruction in the Tano Nimire Forest Reserve.
