Police ask Ghana for assistance in Kraus case

The Czech police have asked Ghana for assistance in helping to throw light on the case of Michal Kraus, the former head of the Social Democrats deputies group in Parliament, who is suspected of fraud and money laundering in connection with a 500 million crown investment in a Ghana cocoa processing plant. Kraus was involved in transferring a large sum of money to the plant and he later signed contracts in Ghana, which he visited in the company of Czech businessman Frantisek Rige, who is now serving a prison sentence for fraud. Kraus, who was the country's longest serving lower house deputy resigned as budget committee chairman when the cocoa affair surfaced late last year.