Shatta Wale Tells Ghana’s Anti-Graft Agency He Bought Lamborghini ‘From the Street’
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Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office has granted dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, bail in the sum of GH¢10 million with two sureties to be justified.
According to Graphic Online, EOCO, in a statement on Thursday, said the singer remains in custody until the sureties provide properties that can be verified to match the bail conditions.
Shatta Wale was invited to the agency’s office on Wednesday to assist in investigations into the purchase of a Lamborghini Urus, which has been linked to proceeds of a $4m crime involving Nana Kwabena Amuah, a Ghanaian currently serving a jail term in the United States.
According to EOCO, after nearly four hours of questioning, the artiste could not identify who sold him the vehicle, only claiming that he got it from the “street.”
The statement read, “So far, Charles Nii Armah Mensah has been unable to identify the person from whom he purchased the said Lamborghini Urus vehicle except to say that he purchased it from the ‘Street’ and from someone possibly called ‘ZAK’ who may have contacted him on WhatsApp but whose identity he does not know and whose contact he has thrown away,”
The agency also stated that the artiste could not produce any receipts or transfer documents to prove ownership, aside from a Customs declaration form bearing Amuah’s name.
Earlier in June, EOCO, working with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Justice Department, carried out a search at Shatta Wale’s Trassaco Valley home in Accra.
