Adu-Boahene alleges GH¢960K out of GH¢49m was paid to MPs as allowances to pass NSB Act

The erstwhile Director of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has alleged that GH¢960,000 (approximately $160,000) of the $49 cardinal nether probe was utilized to wage allowances to members of Parliament's Defence and Interior Committee to facilitate the transition of the National Signals Bureau Act (2020).

In a missive written from EOCO custody, wherever helium is presently connected remand, Adu-Boahene provided a summary of "Special Operations Expenditure" during the delicate modulation play aft the 2024 wide elections.

The papers listed the GH¢960,000 outgo arsenic portion of expenditures for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, specifically for the enactment of the NSB Act 2020.

Denial of wrongdoing

Adu-Boahene, who faces 11 charges including stealing, wealth laundering, and causing fiscal nonaccomplishment to the state, has powerfully denied immoderate misconduct.

He maintains that each expenditures during his tenure were lawful and aligned with nationalist information interests.

"I springiness you my highest assurances that Angela [wife] and I would ne'er bargain nationalist funds, arsenic is being deliberately and wickedly portrayed by the Attorney-General. In immoderate case, however does 1 bargain nationalist funds successful the mode being described by the Attorney-General without being flagged by the Auditor-General?

"Further, I springiness you my highest assurances that Angela [wife] and I would ne'er instrumentality what does not beryllium to us, adjacent if privately arranged. We are afloat of contented with the humble blessings God has fixed us," helium wrote.

Kwabena Adu-Boahene besides accused the Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Raymond Archer, of deliberately misrepresenting oregon distorting facts to the authorities.

According to Adu-Boahene, this behaviour is creating unnecessary nationalist alarm that risks embarrassing some the authorities and nationalist security.

"What is evidently wide is that the EOCO boss, Raymond Archer is deliberately misrepresenting oregon distorting the facts to the authorities, and successful the process causing unnecessary sensation that could embarrass the authorities and nationalist security, and I americium craving your urgent involution to avert it earlier it becomes excessively late," Adu-Boahene wrote.

Case update

Kwabena Adu-Boahene has officially been charged with 11 counts of stealing, including the alleged transportation of GH¢49 cardinal (approximately $7 million) from the bureau’s relationship to his idiosyncratic account, among different offenses.

The suit, which was filed astatine the High Court successful Accra, besides had 3 different accused persons, including the woman of Adu-Boahene, Angela Adjei Boateng; his company, Advantage Solutions Limited; and a banker, Mildred Donkor.

The charges filed against the accused persons included: stealing, contrary to Section 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); conspiracy to steal, contrary to Sections 23(1) and 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960; and defrauding by mendacious pretences, contrary to Section 131(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).

Some of the different charges against them are: wilfully causing fiscal nonaccomplishment to the state, contrary to Section 179A(3)(a) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); utilizing nationalist bureau for profit, contrary to Section 179C(a) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); and collaboration to perpetrate a crime, to wit, utilizing nationalist bureau for profit, contrary to Section 179C(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).

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