British drug suspect married to step-daughter of Ghana's bank governor

Governor of Bank of Ghana Henry Kofi Wampah expressed Sunday shock about the arrest of David McDermott on suspicion of his involvement in illicit drug trade.

According to Wampah, the suspect has been married to his step-daughter Ramona for the past three years.

"David has been known to me as a worker in the mining sector and has been living in the country with Ramona since their marriage some three years ago," Wampah said in a statement.

The governor added: "Until I received information about his arrest, I had absolutely no knowledge about David being a fugitive of the British government."

McDermott, aged 42, was arrested here on Friday in an international collaboration between the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) of Ghana and the National Crime Agency (NCA) of Britain.

According to the NCA, McDermott is a suspected member of a Liverpool-based organized crime group involved in a conspiracy to import and supply cocaine which was seized from a container of frozen Argentinean beef in May 2013 at Tilbury Docks.

Extradition procedures for the suspect are expected to start on Monday in the latest collaborative effort by Ghana and Britain to clampdown on the drug trade. Enditem