Blay-Miezah's estate: Test reveals forgery by Frazier

A letter alleged to have been signed by John Ackah Blay-Miezah re-instating Greg Frazier, the man at the centre of Blay Miezah’s Oman Ghana Trust Holdings Ltd has been proven to be a fake.

A forensic laboratory test conducted by the Police has revealed that the so-called letter of re-instatement was forged. Frazier was fired as the International Coordinator for the Oman Ghana in a termination letter signed by John Ackah Blay-Miezah on 7 January 1991.

In the said termination of appointment by Blay-Miezah stated inter alia that: “The undersigned deems it prudent and expedient to terminate your appointment as International Coordinator. This appointment must only befit any person who has respect for the lawful authority of the sole Beneficiary and Trustee.”

However, in another letter dated 4 June 1992, and allegedly signed by Blay-Miezah to Frazier and copied to Messrs B. Bynum and J. Anumel, reinstating Frazier as adjutant, (a position which contradicted the revoked position), it noted that, “Due to conditions known to the two of us and Joseph Anumel, your authority as adjutant to the Chairman was revoked. Having weighted the circumstances so far, it has behoved me to reinstate you as my adjutant again.”

This reinstatement letter was allegedly written 26 days before the death of Blay-Miezah on 30 June 1992. The interesting aspect of this letter is that, a forensic laboratory test conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service dated 4 June 2002, referenced CID/LAB.7/V.17/116, Lab.No.D41/2002 and signed by Alhaji Bukari, Documents Examiner, E.I. 18/81 and Joana Sarpong-Mensah, Assistant Commissioner, Forensic Science Laboratory, has concluded that the signature by Blay on the said letter was forged. The purpose of the examination was to authenticate the signature allegedly representing Dr John Ackah Blay-Miezah on the referred letter.

The report noted that a thorough forensic analysis revealed that similar identifying features do not exist between the signatures of Blay-Miezah on six other documents on the one hand and the reinstated letter on the other. It, therefore, concluded that, “In view of differences established between the signature on the document of 4/6/1992 and subject signatures on the rest of the document, it is concluded that the signature allegedly representing Dr John Ackah Blay-Miezah is a simulated forgery and, therefore, not authored by the subject.”

When Frazier was challenged to prove the authenticity of the said letter at his press conference, he could only say that Blay-Miezah might have been sick when signing that letter hence the difference. He also stated that he suspects there are some people involved in this, trying to undermine his efforts.

The Statesman’s investigations have revealed that Joyce Blay-Miezah, who was mentioned by Frazier as the sole beneficiary of the said fund, might be misleading. In one document rendered by Dr Ako-Adjei and one Lawyer Beasley as ‘the will’ it noted that, “the key tested member to this will, Nyanike Adjoe, will say 17:46-041.”

This was signed by Blay-Miezah on 9/6/92 with four witnesses including the very the very Joyce Blay-Miezah who has been referred to as the sole beneficiary. “How can a beneficiary be a witness to the same estate?” asked an insider.

According to documentary information available to The Statesman, when Blay died, one Stanley Baron of USA made a false claim when he listed some documents allegedly claiming that Blay gave them to him before his death. Baron wanted to use the documents to dupe some German investors and that nearly landed him in prison. “I must say Frazier is a trickster. He has no responsibility concerning the Oman Ghana Fund. He is behaving like Baron and only God knows his intent,” noted the insider.

In another development, Joseph Kwesi Whajah, an elder brother and a successor of Blay-Miezer, noted in his statement to the Ghana Police on 23 August 1994 that, Frazier’s claim as the International Coordinator should be looked at carefully because as far as he was concerned, Frazier was rather a driver and not an international Coordinator to Blay-Miezah.

Whaja stated that, “All the complaints and accusations he (Frazier) has been writing or making are designed or calculated to mislead the relatives, children and the general people concerned. “I met him in Zurich as a driver to my brother,” he disclosed.