Reverend Dr Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, former Feeer-Basic of the Ghana Income Authority (GRA), and two different high former officers of the GRA have been arrested by the Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor (OSP) yesterday in reference to corruption and corruption associated offences associated to the SML deal.
The 2 others have been Isaac Crentsil, former Commissioner of Customs and now Basic Manager at SML; and Christian Tetteh Sottie, former Technical Advisor and now Managing Director /Chief Government Officer of SML.
The arrests, in line with the OSP in a press release issued on Wednesday, was linked to ongoing investigations into suspected corruption and corruption-related offences in respect of contracts between the GRA and SML for revenue assurance providers. The probe additionally seeks to confirm SML’s claims that its providers have been saving the nation important revenues.
Owusu-Amoah, Crentsil and Sottie have been detained final night time after failing to fulfill bail situations.
The OSP acknowledged that different suspects positioned below arrest have been Evans Adusei, CEO of SML, Philip Mensah, former Deputy Commissioner of Authorized at GRA and now Authorized guide to SML and Joseph Kuruk and Faustina Adjorkor each workers of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA).
On June 13, the OSP performed a search on the workplaces of Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Restricted (SML) to retrieve related info to assist in ongoing investigations.
The search, which was primarily based on a lawful search warrant granted by the court docket, was to retrieve related info to help the workplace in its investigation concerning the work of the reassurance firm on the downstream petroleum sector in a contract with the Ghana Income Authority (GRA).
The Director of Technique, Research and Communication, Samuel Appiah Darko, advised journalists that the investigators of the OSP didn’t destroy any property at SML workplaces throughout final Monday’s search
train, besides to take away and take possession of things related to its investigation.
Moreover, he mentioned as a part of its customary working process, the OSP investigators ready a listing of the objects seized. “That is referred to as the Kind 3 and it’s titled ‘Inventory of things seized or detained throughout search by an authorised officer”.
On December 2023, then President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioned KPMG to undertake an inquiry to realize a transparent understanding of the issues in controversy, and to be correctly suggested in taking the mandatory selections.
On Could 22, 2024, then President Akufo-Addo launched the total KPMG report of the transaction between the Ghana Income Authority (GRA) and SML for public consumption.
A press release asserting the discharge mentioned the President, “within the interest of full transparency in governance, openness, and honesty with the general public, has determined to waive the privilege below part 5 of the RTI Act and has directed the publicat
On April 24, 2024, President Akufo-Addo acquired a request from the Media Basis for West Africa (MFWA), below part 18 of the Proper to Data Act, 2019 (Act 989) (RTI Act), for a replica of the KPMG report on the contracts and transactions between GRA and SML.
The assertion from the presidency acknowledged that taking into account the provisions of the RTI Act, significantly part 5(1)(a) and (b)(i)
of the Act, the President denied the request by MFWA for the reason that KPMG report constituted issues exempt below part 5 of the RTI Act.
“Nevertheless, the President, within the curiosity of full transparency in governance, openness, and honesty with the general public, has determined to waive the privilege below part 5 of the RTI Act and has directed the publication of the KPMG report in full,” it added
