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DE RUEHAR #0692 2021012
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R 211012Z JUL 09
FM AMEMBASSY ACCRA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8037

UNCLAS ACCRA 000692 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KTIP PHUM XA XY GH
SUBJECT: GHANA CONVICTS HUMAN TRAFFICKERS 
 
¶1.  (U) On June 22, the Fast Track High Court in Accra 
sentenced three Chinese nationals to imprisonment with hard 
labor for trafficking eight Chinese women to Ghana for 
prostitution. The court found James Xu Jin guilty of 
recruiting, transporting, and harboring the women who were 
forced to engage in prostitution. He was sentenced to a total 
of 17 years imprisonment, 15 years on the charge of human 
trafficking and two years for conspiracy. His wife was 
sentenced to a total of 12 years on the same charges, 10 
years for human trafficking and two years for conspiracy. His 
brother received a similar 12 year sentence, 10 years for 
abetment and two years for conspiracy. The sentences are to 
run consecutively. 
 
¶2.  (U) The court also ordered James's assets to be 
confiscated and ordered over $14,000 found in his house at 
the time of his arrest to be paid into the Human Trafficking 
Fund and part to be used to pay the amounts he owes his 
victims. James's resident permit has been revoked, and he 
will be deported after serving his prison term. 
 
¶3.  (U) According to Deputy Superintendent of Ghana Police 
Patience Quaye, the victims were returned to their home town 
in China on July 1. 
 
¶4.  (U) COMMENT: With this widely publicized conviction, the 
GOG has taken a visible step towards eliminating trafficking 
in persons. After having been downgraded to Tier II Watch 
List in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report primarily for 
the lack of trafficking convictions, the arrest and 
conviction of these traffickers was a notable success on the 
part of the Ghana police and GOG ministries. 
TEITELBAUM