State Funds Diversion: Former National Signals Bureau Boss, 3 Others Charged
Charges have officially been filed against the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu Boahen, his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng, and two others.
Other accused are Mildred Donkor and Advantage Solutions Limited.
They have been slapped with three counts of stealing; one count of conspiracy to steal; defrauding by false pretense; willfully causing financial loss to the state; two counts of using public office for profit; obtaining public property by false statement; money laundering; and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The charges were filed at the Accra High Court on April 30, 2025, by the Attorney General, Dominic Ayine following investigations into the alleged diversion and embezzlement of state funds in the procurement of a cyber defence system in 2020 by the NSB headed by Mr Adu Boahen.
According to the charge sheet, the monies which Adu Boahen and his wife moved from the National BNC bank account into the Private BNC’s bank account were paid through a complex web of companies managed under Advantage Solutions Limited.
These monies were moved with the knowledge and active assistance of Mildred Donkor and used to purchase and construct various landed properties located in Accra, Kumasi and London, and to buy a fleet of luxury cars, it said.
“The funds were also used to fund the lavish lifestyle of the couple and their friends.”
Alleged Funds Diversion
All tranches of payment for the software were transferred from the national NBC account to Adu Boahen’s private company, the A-G said while addressing the press on March 24, 2025.
“The transfer from the National BNC account brought the total transfers that he made to his private BNC account to ¢49 million. By the exchange rate at the time, this amount was exactly the Ghana cedi equivalent of $ 7 million, the exact full amount he quoted as the exact amount the RLC Holdings sold the Cyber Defence equipment to the government of Ghana.”
The payments, he noted, referenced the invoice number from RLC Holdings to the National BNC.
However, Dr Ayine noted that of all the intended payments, only the initial transfer of the ¢9.5 million reached RLC Holdings from the private BNC account.
“No further payments were made to ISC Holdings.”
He continued, “The difference between ¢49 million being the money Mr Adu Boahen transferred from the Bank Account of the National BNC to his private BNC and 9.5million being the money he actually paid to the RLC Holdings for the software ended up with him and his wife. That is to say the sum of ¢39,462,480 of taxpayers money went into their private pockets.”
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
