A brother of the suspected cocaine baron, Sheriff Asem Dakeh, alias “The Limping Man”, has appeared before the Accra Fast Track High Court on charges of laundering proceeds from a narcotic drug offence.
Evans Charwetey Tsikobi, a mechanic, has been remanded and will re-appear on April 19, 2007 for his plea to be taken.
His runaway brother is alleged to have chartered the MV Benjamin, the vessel at the centre of the missing 77 parcels of cocaine, from Dashment Shipping Services to import the substance to Ghana but before the security agencies could get wind of its berth, all but one parcel of the substance had been stolen.
According to the particulars of offence, Charwetey, on September 27, last year, handled a Toyota Land Cruiser belonging to Sheriff.
That car was said to have been used by Sheriff when he went to the Kpone Beach to cart the cocaine, but in the process of bolting, he left the vehicle behind.
However, Charwetey went for it, parked it in his house and covered it with a tarpaulin, with the intent to conceal it.
The statement said Charwetey knew that his brother was wanted for crimes related to cocaine and had reasonable knowledge that the vehicle was directly obtained as a result of the commission of a narcotic drug offence.
His counsel was not in court.
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