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The Commercial Court hearing the case of fraud in the payment of GH�51.2 million to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has adjourned the case to June 3, 2013. The prosecutor, a Chief State Attorney, Mr Matthew Amponsah, told the court yesterday that his witness had travelled outside the country and pleaded with the court to adjourn the case to a later date. He explained further that his witness was expected to return on May 29, 2013. During the last sitting on May 8, 2013, a former Managing Director of Waterville Holdings Limited, Mr Andrea Orlandi, concluded giving evidence in the ongoing case in which Woyome is being tried for causing financial loss to the state. Woyome has been charged with two counts of wilfully causing financial loss to the state and defrauding by false pretence. He allegedly made a false representation to claim GH�51.2 million from the government, through a default judgement. Woyome has, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and is currently on a GH�20 million bail. Six prosecution witnesses who have so far testified in the matter are a Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP), Mrs Mangowa Ghanney; a former Minister of Finance, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, and a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu. The others are Ms Yvonne Quansah of the Financial Sector Division of MoFEP; Mr Lionel Vanlare Dosoo, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, and the Director of Legal Affairs at the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mrs Lesley Duodu.