In Aisha Huang's trial, the prosecution's eleventh witness claimed that the defendant used forged paperwork to get a residence permit.
Huang allegedly faked her marriage documents to get visas, according to the witness, Superintendent Divine Ahumah Ocansey, a member of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS).
Ms. Huang has been accused of conducting a mining operation without a permit, encouraging others to participate in a mining business, hiring foreign nationals without authorization, and entering Ghana despite being barred from doing so.
Evidence-in-Chief
The defendant, who is also known as En Huang, was allowed into the nation on May 28, 2010, and was given a 30-day visitor's visa, Superintendent Ocansey further told the court.
The witness stated that up until she was granted a dependent visa on November 25, 2010, as the wife of Ghanaian Mr. Anthony Fabien, Aisha entered and exited the country on visitor's visas.
He said that the accused's dependent permit, which prohibited her from working in the nation, was extended on April 28, 2015, when she was granted unlimited residency permission as Anthony Fabien's wife.
The eleventh witness claimed that En Huang enlisted Lu Qi Jun, Gao Jin Cheng, Habin Gao, and Zhang Zhipeng to work with her in mining activities in Bepotenten, where the four Chinese nationals were detained on May 5, 2017, by the Obuasi GIS District Command.
Untrue statement
Aisha claimed to security authorities that she was not mining but rather providing mine support services to Aunty Maggie at her concession in Bepotenten, according to the witness, who added: "But this was found to be untrue."
Following En Huang's arrest, the steps she took to obtain her indefinite residence permit were examined, and it was discovered that the majority of the supporting documents—including the Ghana passport biodata pages of Anthony Fabien and the marriage certificate for her alleged union with him—were fakes.
"The Births and Death Registry, Accra, did not have any records on the accused person's husband, Anthony Fabien," he said. Neither did the passport office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Accused
En Huang has been charged with being heavily involved in galamsey, or illicit mining, particularly in the Ashanti Region.
After the state decided to end her trial, in which she was charged with engaging in small-scale mining without a permit, she was deported from the country in 2018.
She was believed to have returned illegally to the country to carry out the same actions.
The Attorney General then made the decision to bring charges against her for the alleged offenses committed prior to her deportation as well as any new ones following her return to the nation.
The prosecution's allegation is that Huang ran a mining support services business in addition to having an unlawful mining concession at Bepotenten in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region.
She has been placed in police prison after denying the accusations made against her.
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