Ghanaian-born Austrian drug baron Nayele Ametefe has been spotted at a UK airport relocating to Austria following her release from prison.
Ametefe, also known as Ruby Appiah, spent three-and-half years out of the eight years in jail following good behavior after being convicted of possessing 12.5Kg of cocaine.
Starrfmonline.com broke the news about her release on Wednesday and moments after pictures of the well connected 35-year-old have popped up.
She is believed to be in Austria now “living a quiet life” having renounced her Ghanaian citizenship.
Ametefe was convicted January 6, 2015 for transporting cocaine to the UK and was sentenced to eight years and eight months jail term.
She reportedly used the VVIP Lounge of Ghana’s only international airport – Kotoka – in the capital Accra to smuggle prohibited substance outside the shores of the West African country via a British Airways flight.
She was caught with about 12.5kg of cocaine with a street value of 1.9 million Pounds. She was reported to have had on her $23, 000 and 6000 Pounds at the time of her arrest.
Background
During her trial she revealed that she was being protected by people in authority since 2004, however, she failed to disclose if those high people were politicians or not.
Ametefe, also known as Ruby Appiah, made the revelations in the Isleworth Crown Court, London. According to her, she was introduced into the drug smuggling business by a businesswoman in Ghana after her struggles to keep up with the affluent lifestyle she enjoyed while married to her ex-husband, who was a very wealthy spare parts dealer.
The 32-year-old mother of three has, however, failed to name her accomplices for fear that her children might be harmed in Ghana.
Ametefe, whose final destination was the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean, said she stopped over in London to shop and have a medical checkup. She was arrested with the whopping sum meant to be her full payment for the courier services and 6,000 Pounds as her bonus.
Meanwhile, six persons who were standing trial in Ghana over their alleged complicit in the case were freed.
The Circuit Court in Accra which was hearing the case consequently acquitted businessman Alhaji Dawood, Nana Akua Amponsah, Sadalia Nuhu, Foreign Ministry officer, Abiel Ashitey Armah, Theophilus Kissi, also a foreign service officer, and Ahmed Abubakr, a protocol officer at the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
