Money bouquets: protecting the cedi or stretching the law?
The arrest of seven persons in Accra by the Ghana Police Service and the Bank of Ghana (BoG) over the alleged production and sale of money bouquets and money cakes has reignited an important question: where does legitimate currency regulation end and criminal enforcement begin?
Published by Francis Buetey
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