‘Relatives’ sent to Norway to bring corpse of dead ‘paralympic coach’ home also ran away
Source: Pulse Ghana
Reports have it that four persons posing as relatives of the deceased coach of the ‘fake Paralympic team’, who were sent to retrieve the body of the coach, have also absconded after touching down in Norway.
The disclosure was made by the president of the National Paralympic Committee, Samson Deen, while speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show.
The National Paralympic Committee (NPC) has come under strong criticism after some para-athletes who travelled for the Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon eloped after touching down in Oslo.
A statement from the Ministry of National Security said 11 athletes were supposed to show up for the marathon but failed to even register for the competition.
A member of the contingent was arrested trying to enter Sweden, while the team’s coach, George Gyamfi Gyasi, also died at a hospital after collapsing.
While the president of the Paralympic Committee has described the para-team as imposters, he further revealed that relatives of the deceased who were sent to bring his corpse back to Ghana have also absconded after landing in Norway.
“If you look at the first application, it was six or seven people they applied for initially. They were denied visas, they got the letters they wanted subsequently forged, but upon arrival, they absconded, and one died,” Samson Deen is quoted as saying.
“They subsequently wrote to the Norwegian embassy again and requested to send the families of the one who died. The people went, they couldn’t bring the corpse. The four also absconded, these guys are known. They’ve been identified.”
Meanwhile, the Paralympic Committee has reported the matter to the police, with investigations into the scandal ongoing.
