Chinese native Huang Lei, who is thought to be the son of notorious illicit mining tycoon En Huang, also known as Aisha Huang, was found guilty by the Accra High Court and expelled from Ghana by the Ghana Immigration Service.
On September 2, 2022, the felon was taken into custody. The arresting authorities found eight packs of Eley shotgun cartridges, totaling roughly two hundred and fifty rounds of ammunition. He was unable to provide them a legitimate licence.
He appeared in court facing charges of one count of continuing to reside in Ghana after the expiration of his passport and one count of unauthorised possession of 250 rounds of ammunition.
He had first entered a not guilty plea before Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, the court's presiding justice, but then altered his plea to guilty before Justice Comfort Tasiame, the court's substituting judge, as a result of the substantive judge's yearly leave.
Huang Lei was ultimately found guilty based on his own admission of guilt and given a GH$10,800 punishment.
The offender was deported to his native China after the court directed the Ghana Immigration Service to do so.
The court has scheduled a date to perform case management, which clears the way for the trial, while two of his accomplices are in court being tried for comparable offences.
Shi Yang, who was initially on trial with his mother and stepfather, has now been charged with one count of possessing a forged residence permit and four counts of possessing ammunition without a permit. Shi Yang's counterpart, Huang Haihua, has also been charged with one count of possessing a forged document, a fake residence permit.
He is accused of having 114 live rounds of ammunition—83 live 9mm rounds, three live 8mm rounds, and an additional 22 live BB rounds—in his hands without a licence.
The two's solicitor, Lucy Ekeleba Blay, informed the court yesterday that she had submitted a new plea for bail on behalf of the suspects, who had been remanded into jail.
The case was postponed until March 22, 2023 so that the application may be moved after the court stated that it would not be able to hear the application yesterday.
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