Kwabena Adu-Boahene, the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, has been arrested for another crime.
According to Adu Boahene’s lawyer, Samuel Atta Akyea, his client was re-arrested after he was released on Tuesday, after serving his seven-day remand in the custody of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).
Samuel Atta Akyea revealed that the arrest concerned a different crime that had to do with National Security providing internet services to Ghana Water Limited.
Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, has revealed that the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu Boahene another criminal act.
According to the Attorney General, Kwabena Adu Boahene redirected Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) internet services to biweekly payments of ₵650,000 to his own company.
Dr Ayine revealed a contract between GWCL and the erstwhile Bureau of National Communications (now the National Signals Bureau), which the GWCL was to pay GHS1.3 million monthly in exchange for secure internet services.
The Attorney General noted that the GHS1.3 million monthly payment by the GWCL was diverted to Adu Boahene’s personal account instead of the accounts of the Bureau of National Communications.
Speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday, April 30, Dr Ayine, “The delay in filing charges came about because our diligent investigation team came across yet another scheme hatched by Mr Adu Boahen this time involving Ghana Water Company Limited.
This criminal act came about involving a purported procurement of internet services for GWCL by the erstwhile Bureau of National Communications (BNC)
“For purposes of his payment, Kwabena Adu Boahen provided the account details of his company, BNC Communications Bureau Limited, to Ghana Water, which religiously paid for the internet services,” Dr. Ayine revealed.
He explained, “In other words, every two weeks, when GHS650,000 of money from Ghana Water left the account of Ghana Water, instead of going to the National Signals Bureau account, it went to the account of a company owned by Kwabena Adu Boahen and his wife”.
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