Blacko’s Arrest: Booking Agent Demands For $20k Refund To Cruise People Limited

Mister Daniel Vanderpuye, the Cruise People Limited boss, the firm that caused Black Sherifโ€™s detention on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, has disclosed how his action has caused Black Sherifโ€™s booking agents to respond to their dormant mail trail.

Granting an interview to Multimedia’s Kwame Dadzie on Joy Prime that on Thursday, July 20, 2023, after months of going silent on their pleas, he received a mail notification from the United Talent Agency.

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derpuye said, in the mail, the accountant of the agency was ordered to refund to Cruise People Limited, the $20,000 that was paid to Black Sherif as partial fulfilment of their financial commitment of $40,000 for his performance at the Afro Cruise Jam slated for August 19, 2023, in Greece.

โ€œThis morning when I woke up, an email trail that truncated some time on the 19th of May had just resurrected and what do I see? A message to the accounting department to send the money to Ghana. So it took this for that to happen? So if Black Sherif wasnโ€™t arrested they werenโ€™t going to do this?โ€ he said.

Daniel noted that before this, he had served the agency a letter on the refusal of Black Sherif to record a video to confirm his availability for the Afro Cruise Jam. However, according to him, neither the agency nor the close team members of the artists responded to the content of the letter.

The 21-year-old music star was picked up by the police when he touched down at the Kotoka International Airport on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, after performing at the biggest music festivals across the US and Europe this summer.

According to him, because Black Sherif and his team were unyielding to the agreement to produce a promotional video for their event, he decided to hand him over to the police and immigration. 

The Cruise People Limited boss mentioned that sometime in June 2023, โ€œwe petitioned the director CID and asked that he be arrested. You how many calls came from the police that he ignored? You donโ€™t wanna know that.โ€

โ€œThe police will just not wake up and arrest Black Sherif on a baseless or flimsy excuse from us. We submitted everything. So based on that, the police secured an arrest warrant from the court and then informed the immigration because where were we going to find him? So it was either when he is leaving or he is coming. So the immigration stopped him, handed him over to the police,โ€ he further expressed.

Daniel said Black Sherif was later taken to the police station to assist in the investigation of the issue.

Quizzed if he could not have resorted to other options apart from the police, he said his attorneys had earlier penned to the United Talent Agency, and that other stakeholders had also reached out to Blackโ€™s team but to no avail.

Meanwhile, he is pursuing to take civil action against Black Sherif, to get a refund of his money and damages for the losses he made.

ยฉ 2023 โ€ข Story By Edem Latsu Nukafu
Writer’s email: edemlatsu093@gmail.com


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