9. After that, on 4th of June, 2009, Joseph Frimpong and Frank Boakye, were taken to court where they admitted the commission of the crime for conspiracy and armed robbery and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment each with hard labour by a Court in Accra, Ghana. In its judgment, the Accra Court held that Joseph Frimpong and Frank Boakye were actually police officers posted to the airport police post and used their position to commit the crime. However, the court, having found the two state officials guilty, only adjudicated on the criminal action, without a pronouncement on the reparation for the prejudices suffered by the victims. When it became clear the circumstances of the case and the involvement of the Republic of Ghana, the Plaintiffs then made efforts for Republic of Ghana to pay them compensation for the goods that were taken away by the former policemen, but failed. 10. Furthermore, the plaintiffs invited Experts of Mousa Diarra Accounting Firm and that of a Customs Consulting Firm to examine the documents of the goods and gave a report as their value, they evaluated and gave a value of the sum of one hundred and forty-seven million, one hundred and forty-six thousand, five hundred and sixty-four CFA (XOF 147,146,564) only for the damages done to the trailer, the value of stolen goods and the extent of the prejudices suffered by the Plaintiffs. 11. However, irrespective of the existing Convention on Judicial corporation between the Republic of Mali and Republic of Ghana that recognizes and guarantees the same rights to citizens of either contracting parties on their territory, on legal protection of persons and goods; and in spite of all the several complaints addressed to Ghanaian authorities notably, the Chief of Staff in the Presidency of Ghana, the Attorney General, Minister of Justice and the Ambassador of Ghana to the Republic of Mali, the Republic of Ghana took no steps to address the issue of compensation to the plaintiffs. 4