1 hour ago Thomas Partey volition miss Ghana's World Cup opener against Panama aft wrongly telling officials successful Canada helium had ne'er been arrested oregon charged with a crime.
Partey, 33, was denied introduction to Canada earlier Wednesday's lucifer successful Toronto due to the fact that of ongoing transgression proceedings successful the UK.
The Ghanaian authorities sought support for him to participate the state concisely to instrumentality portion successful the crippled but that entreaty was rejected astatine a national tribunal successful Ottawa.
The entreaty ruling said determination was "no superior contented successful the underlying refusal" of the visa and "the applicant failed to disclose that helium is the taxable of aggregate transgression charges for intersexual unit successful the UK".
Former Arsenal subordinate Partey pleaded not blameworthy to 7 charges of rape and 1 number of intersexual battle relating to allegations by 4 antithetic women betwixt 2020 and 2022 and is owed to basal proceedings adjacent year.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) told the BBC: ''Canada has been accordant that hosting large events does not alteration Canada's migration laws.
"Every idiosyncratic seeking to travel to Canada is assessed individually, based connected the facts disposable and the instrumentality that applies.''
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