Passports of Adu Boahene and wife should remain with EOCO - Court
While patiently waiting in the lounge for his baggage, an immigration officer informed him that there was an issue with his name that needed to be rectified at the main office in Terminal 3 Departures. He was also told that he needed to have a discussion with the Immigration Boss.
Mr Adu Boahen willingly followed the officer to the Immigration office at Terminal 3 Departures. After about 10 minutes, he was informed that he was on EOCO’s stop list and was wanted accordingly.
The Attorney-General Dr Dominic Ayine had expressed the view that Kwabena Adu Boahene should still be in detention, but his wife can be released on bail.
This is based on intelligence that he has received so far on the dealings of Mr Adu Boahen, he said.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Monday, March 24, Dr Ayine said “we gave them bail conditions about 160 million Ghana Cedis with sureties to be justified, so they brought some properties belonging to some of their friends, families, we are verifying the titles of those properties to see if we will accept them in order to grant the bail.
“With respect to Adu Boahen, I got a brief last night and I am thinking that he should continue to stay in detention. , if we are granting the wife and other suspects bail he should continue to stay in detention because of what has come to my knowledge so I have advised EOCO to vary the bail terms or release him and release him and we will go to court in order to meet the 48-hour con institutional threshold, maybe likely today,”
Dr Dominic Ayine further warned all banks that Mr Adu Boahen deals with not to move any assets or money belonging to Mr Adu Boahen and his wife.
He said the Financial Intelligence Centre is tracking the accounts owned by Mr Adu Boahen and his wife. If any of the banks fails to heed this warning, he said, the bank managers will be held liable.
“Investigations have also established that money mostly proceeds of crime from Advantage Solutions Limited and BNC Communications Bureau Limited and other similar sources have been transmitted under very suspicious circumstances through the bank accounts of these companies
“The investigations have revealed so far that the suspect and his wife have registered companies which we are currently tracking, there are about ten companies we are tracking that they created with Advantage Solutions mostly owning all the companies. For purposes of the investigations that is ongoing, we are not going to disclose those companies.
“But I want to warn any executive, director or employee of each of the companies knowing that Mr Adu Boahen has been arrested. if they make movement of assets we will track and arrest them and prosecute them.
“All banks are also warned that if we see any wire transfers or cash withdrawals on any of the accounts belonging to Mr Adu Boahen and h is companies, the Bank Managers and all their employees who are involved in those transfers will equally be arrested.
“We are monitoring their activities, and we are monitoring all their bank accounts from the Financial Intelligence Centre, with a press of a button we can see the movement of money on any of the accounts, so we are monitoring that very closely.”
The Attorney-General further announced that it is possible that the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahen, may have purchased (acquired) another citizenship from the wealth that he accumulated.
The A-G says investigations so far show that the suspect has two service passports.
The Economic and Organised Crime (EOCO) is following up on intelligence that he has a foreign passport.
“The massive wealth he has accumulated, it is possible he has purchased another citizenship. Wife’s British passport in possession of EOCO.
