High Court reschedules NAM 1's virtual case hearing
When the matter came up, however, it emerged that other courts had already reserved the conferencing room normally used for remote hearings.
The criminal trial of Nana Appiah Mensah has been pushed back after an Accra High Court was unable to proceed with his planned virtual testimony because the video conferencing facility was not available.
Nana Appiah Mensah, better known as NAM1, had been expected to testify remotely after the court allowed him to appear from home on health grounds. The court had earlier been told that he had recently undergone surgery but was still prepared to join proceedings virtually.
When the matter came up, however, it emerged that other courts had already reserved the conferencing room normally used for remote hearings.
As a result, Justice Sedinam Awo Kwadam adjourned the case to 16 April 2026, the next available date for the facility.
The adjournment affects a high-profile trial in which NAM1, together with Menzgold Ghana Limited and Brew Marketing Consult Ghana Limited, is facing 39 charges. The allegations include defrauding by false pretence, inducement to invest and money laundering, with the amounts involved said to total GH¢340,835,650.
The former Menzgold boss has chosen to conduct his defence through oral testimony rather than by filing witness statements in advance.
He has also signalled that he intends to call for documents and testimony from several state institutions as part of his effort to rebut the case against him. Among the bodies he says he plans to subpoena are the Ghana Police Service, the Economic and Organised Crime Office, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Minerals Commission, the Bank of Ghana, the Agricultural Development Bank and Zenith Bank.
In the evidence he has already begun to give, NAM1 has maintained that Menzgold was properly licensed to operate within the gold trade and has sought to explain how the company came under the regulatory authority of the Minerals Commission.
He told the court that one factor was the rapid growth of Menzgold from a relatively small venture into a large operation with multiple branches, which he attributed to management, vision, resource mobilisation and regulatory compliance.
He also said the shift in licensing authority followed legal action by the Gold Exporters Association of Ghana against the Precious Minerals Marketing Company after PMMC introduced measures that, in his account, interfered with the commercial rights of exporters.
The case will now resume in mid-April, when the court expects to have the technical arrangements in place for his testimony to continue.
