Amandi Mohammed, 30, one of the suspects nabbed in connection with the alleged attempt to smuggle about 15 young women to Europe to engage in prostitution, has denied that he deals in the booming sex trade between West Africa and Europe. Mohammed spoke exclusively to DAILY GUIDE last Sunday after being granted police enquiry bail. He distanced himself from the illicit trade which had attracted international attention and said he only knew one of the girls who was deported from a European country. According to him, he knew TJ, the man with whom he run a car renting business, but had no idea that his business associate also had other business deals. Narrating how he got busted by a Police team last week, Mohammed said TJ instructed him to lodge proceeds of the car rental business with his sister, Laamie. "I knew only one of the girls through Laamie, TJ's sister, who is a hairdresser. I used to hand over proceeds from the car business to her and that was how I came to know that particular girl," he said. "As for the girls arrested by the Police, I have never seen them before until when I was bundled with them into a Police vehicle which drove us to the CID headquarters," he said with stress visible on his countenance. He said he was standing in front of their shop between Sabon Zongo and Abbossey Okai when the crime officers pounced on him. One of them, he said, asked about what he did for a living but as he was about to answer, another officer pushed his way into one of the inner offices. "I asked them what the matter was and one of them began searching the place. I got a call but before I could take it, one of them snatched the phone and a swarm of investigators appeared," he disclosed. "When they asked what I did for a living I told them that I managed a car business and communication centre." He said they seized his car papers and one of them said, "You think we are joking eh” while another asked about the whereabouts of TJ. "I told him that he was not available but at that moment, Anas Aremeyaw, whom I knew, pointed out TJ from a picture frame on the office wall in which he was photographed with the legendary Egyptian footballer, Osam Hassan," he said. "A friend of mine, a medical laboratory technician student, appeared on the scene to visit me and was also quickly apprehended. However, upon my intervention that he was a student at Korle Bu, he was released," he said. The suspect was bundled into a Police vehicle alongside the young women who were flushed out of the rooms in the adjoining house. He said they were driven to the CID headquarters where according to him, "I passed the night with nobody assaulting me." Amandi Mohammed hails from Bawku in the Upper East Region and has been domiciled in Accra since 1996. It will be recalled that a team of Policemen from the CID headquarters on Wednesday night arrested two suspects, Amandi Mohammed, 30 and Kwadwo Addai Boamah, 50 for their alleged involvement in trafficking young women from Nigeria to Europe to work as sex slaves. The suspects who allegedly had their local collaborators in Nigeria and Italy were believed to be involved in falsifying travel documents for the victims. Amandi Mohammed was arrested at Abbosey Okai on October 24 with nine girls who were brought from Nigeria to Ghana for processing of their travel documents to Europe to work as prostitutes in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Holland, among others. Kwadwo Boamah, a native of Pramso in the Ashanti region was arrested on October 25 at about 4:30am at his residence at Gbawe where he was housing eight Nigerian girls. According to a Police report, when a search was conducted in Kwadwo Boamah's office, items retrieved included seven Ghanaian passports, four vaccination certificates, one international driving licence bearing the name Kwadwo Boamah Addai, 59, a birth certificate, two Motorola mobile phones, three bank statements from Unibank, an invitation letter, and one Republic of Benin passport bearing the name of Affo Kaffi Seibou. During Police interrogation, Kwadwo Boamah Addai admitted that his wife is in Italy and that the relatives of the girls who were also based in Italy had requested him to assist the girls to join them, but the girls told the Police that they were brought from Nigeria to Ghana for processing of their documents to travel to Europe. The girls said they had been in the country between one and three months. Source: Daily Guide