{
  "id": 17073051,
  "title": "Court dismisses Charles Bissue’s bid to quash corruption charges against him and others",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/court-dismisses-charles-bissues-bid-to-quash-corruption-charges",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T14:13:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/court-dismisses-charles-bissues-bid-to-quash-corruption-charges-against-him-and-others/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining Secretary Charles Bissue faced a setback in his attempt to dismiss corruption charges against himself and two others. The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) dismissed the grounds he provided as frivolous in a court update on October 29, 2025. The charges, filed in April 2025, relate to the 'Galamsey Fraud' investigation detailed in the 2019 Tiger Eye P.I. report. Bissue, Raphael Mensah, and Dr Naa Dedei Tagoe were accused of nine counts involving alleged corruption and abuse of public office. Bissue challenged the prosecution on three grounds: a pending earlier case, his previous clearance by the police, and the OSP's lack of authority to investigate un-referred cases. The court rejected these challenges, stating that the earlier case had been withdrawn, the lawyer's claim of memory lapse was insufficient, and the OSP had the authority to investigate. Despite multiple legal challenges from Bissue since 2023, the ruling allows the prosecution to continue, although the outcome for the accused remains to be determined by the court.",
  "summary": "The former Secretary of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue, has suffered a setback in his attempt to have corruption charges against him and two others dismissed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}