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ACCRA. — A court in Ghana released two men on bail on Monday pending a trial on charges that they conspired to import nearly 6 tonnes of cocaine from Bolivia in what is one of the biggest recorded seizures of drugs linked to West Africa. A circuit court judge in Accra ordered businessmen Alexander Kofi Baah and Shahad Iddrisu freed on payment of $13 000 bail each until the trial begins on April 30, said their lawyers Ellis Owusu-Fordwouh and Jerry Avenorgbo.

Owusu-Fordwouh said he expected the charges against the businessmen to be dropped for lack of evidence.

Bolivia seized the drugs in March but prosecutors say the plan had been for the drugs to transit through Ghana’s Tema port and continue to Burkina Faso. — Reuters.