A lawyer representing fourteen of the judges implicated in the bribery scandal claims the video is a fabrication that is designed to get his clients unfairly tagged as corrupt.

The lawyer, Charles Kwesi Bentum, argues that the video seems manipulated, with several frames arranged in a way to portray some of the judges as taking money when they did no such thing.

He was speaking on Citi Fm’s The Big Issue.

“We believe this video is concocted, we believe so because what is being seen cannot be a fair representation of the facts that are being alleged,” he stated

“You see the registrar’s face counting money and then you see a break and the next picture you see is a judge sitting down in his chair and then the next moment the video ends and you don’t see what happens next with the money you saw being counted, and you can’t hear any sound,” Mr. Bentum added.

According to him, that is a misrepresentation meant to implicate the judges. He also added that the veracity of the tape should have been ascertained by the judges themselves and that they weren’t granted the opportunity to do so.

“It would have been better in any case if these tapes were handed over to these judges and magistrates to examine them, look at its authenticity to ensure that what it contains represents the allegations as has been levelled against them,” Mr Bentum emphasised.

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, after a painstaking investigation covering two years, uncovered what he said is massive rot at the heart of Ghana’s judiciary. He has already written some articles detailing how portions of the operation went down, and has set September 22 for the public airing of the video. Meanwhile, the judges involved are fighting their suspension whilst also seeking an injunction against the public airing of the video.