{"id":5911,"date":"2021-11-15T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:11:42","slug":"gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained","title":{"rendered":"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED By Lamin Cham<\/p>\n<p>Police yesterday confirmed the arrest of Saihou Drammeh, the general manager of Gam-Petroleum, the country\u2019s only gas and fuel storage depot located at Mandinaring, Kombo North.<\/p>\n<p>According to police spokesman Superintendent Lamin Njie, Mr Drammeh is being held in connection with a fuel transaction at Gam-Petroleum. He declined to give any further details on the matter, saying \u201cthe matter is being investigated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to a credible source, the matter has to do with an \u201cunauthorised\u201d delivery of tonnes of fuel to two Gambian businessmen and the subsequent unaccounting of the payments.<\/p>\n<p>According to our source, one of the businessmen paid for the fuel but the money was lodged into the account of a forex bureaux owner. The bureaux owner reportedly cashed the US$1.9 million and handed it to a lady working for one of the businessmen who took the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Our source said the forex bureaux owner reportedly told the police that he was asked to exchange the money into dollars. Our source added that the lady is also being detained by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the police are interested to know how the fuel was given in the first place without payment\u2026\u201d our source said.<\/p>\n<p>Our source further added that the police investigators also want to know how the money meant for Gam-Petroleum was paid into the account of a forex bureaux owner and under whose instructions it was paid.<\/p>\n<p>The Standard contacted one of the businessmen named in the matter but he declined to comment, saying he does not wish to prejudice police investigations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED By Lamin Cham Police yesterday confirmed the arrest of Saihou Drammeh, the general manager of Gam-Petroleum, the country\u2019s only gas and fuel storage depot located at Mandinaring, Kombo North. According to police spokesman Superintendent Lamin Njie, Mr Drammeh is being held in connection with a fuel transaction at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8],"tags":[2355,2361,2734,260,2733],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gam-petroleum-boss","tag-gambia","tag-mr-drammeh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED By Lamin Cham Police yesterday confirmed the arrest of Saihou Drammeh, the general ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED By Lamin Cham Police yesterday confirmed the arrest of Saihou Drammeh, the general ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-15T15:14:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-15T16:11:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-619286a37bc93.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-15T15:14:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-15T16:11:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-619286a37bc93.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS\",\"Gambia\",\"Mr Drammeh\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gam-petroleum-boss-others-detained\",\"name\":\"GAM-PETROLEUM BOSS, OTHERS DETAINED - 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