The $18 million (£13.6 million) granted to Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in a defamation case has been reduced to $500 by a US court.
A jury determined that former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong had defamed Anas by calling him a “criminal” and that he was responsible for the murder of a fellow journalist. As a result, he was compelled to pay the enormous sum.
A judge in a New Jersey court declared that $18 million was “disproportionate and legally unsustainable” after Agyapong’s legal team asked for the sum to be lowered, the former MP stated on X.
Although his Tiger Eye P.I. media group had earlier stated that the issue was never about money, Anas declared he would appeal the decision.
