A top government official in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been busted while attempting to allegedly launder money in London.
The said
official, acting in concert with some unscrupulous airport officials, managed
to fly a colossal sum of foreign currency to London.
The money
was carried in a chartered aircraft from Ghana to the United Kingdom for and on
behalf of the government official, deemed to be extremely key in the Akufo-Addo
administration.
The money,
a total of about £26 million was flown to the Heathrow Airport with relative
ease, but alert officials at the airport intercepted the cash.
According
to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which is investigating the matter, it has
decided not to name the official yet for security reasons.
But Bosome
gathers that the announcement of the name could shake the very foundations of
the Akufo-Addo government.
“The
British Customs have intercepted a large amount of money from a key government
official, and are asking for documentation to support that. That money was
ferried into the United Kingdom by a plane, a chartered plane…About 26 million
pounds Sterling …And they are still investigating. The information is still
filtering through. It’s not done yet,” National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP
for Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini said on Radio Gold on Saturday.
Alhaji
Inusah Fuseini noted that money laundering and corrupt activities were rife in
the country. He explained that the inability of government to list the IPO of the
Agyapa deal is because of these illicit activities and not because of the
Special Prosecutor’s request to do a corruption risk assessment of the deal.
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