The Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor (OSP) has charged the previous Chief Govt Officer of the Nationwide Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, and 9 others on the Excessive Court docket (Criminal Division), Accra, for allegedly extorting GH¢280 million from oil advertising corporations.
In line with the OSP, the alleged criminality was perpetrated by seven people and three corporations.
All of the seven accused and three corporations are dealing with a complete of 25 counts, together with extortion by a Public Officer, opposite to Part 151 of the Legal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), conspiracy to commit cash laundering, contrary to Part 23 of Act 29 and Sections 1 (1), 1 (2), and 4 of the anti-money laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044), cash laundering, opposite to Sections 1(1), 1(2), and 4 of Act 1044.
One Osei Tutu Adjei, a Director of the ninth accused firm, is at present at giant.
They’re Jacob Kwamina Amuah – Coordinator of the Unified Petroleum Pricing Fund (UPPF) on the NPA and Managing Director of three company entities-Propnest, Kel Logistics and Kings Power, Wendy Newman – NPA employees, and Albert Ankrah – Director, Kel Logistics Restricted.
Others are Isaac Mensah – Director, Kel Logistics Restricted, Vivid Bediako-Mensah – Director, Kel Logistics and Kings Power Restricted, Kwaku Aboagye Acquaah – Director, Kings Power Restricted, Propnest Restricted, Kel Logistics Restricted and Kings Power Limited.
The OSP revealed that investigations into the matter was initiated by the OSP in late 2024 into alleged illegal conduct involving the diversion of public funds and collusion with oil advertising and bulk distribution corporations.
Samuel Appiah Darko, Director-Technique, Analysis and Communication, famous that between 2022 and December 2024, the accused appearing underneath the color of their official duties—allegedly orchestrated and operated a felony extortion scheme by which they unlawfully collected GH¢280,516,127.19 from petroleum transporters and oil marketing corporations.
He mentioned the scheme, initiated by Abdul-Hamid and carried out by Amuah and Newman, lacked any lawful mandate and exploited their positions throughout the NPA
BY MALIK SULLEMANA
