The High Court in Accra has once again dismissed a request for disclosure by the lawyer of the embattled former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu Boahene, in the ongoing GH¢49 million NSB trial.
According to a report by citinewsroom.com, the lawyer of Adu Boahene (the 1st accused in the case) and his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng (the 2nd accused), Samuel Atta Akyea, filed a motion seeking disclosure of several documents, including the bill of lading for a BMW vehicle, documents evidencing the port of entry, and the police docket related to the vehicle.
Atta Akyea argued that the documents requested would help determine a claim by the prosecution that Adu Boahene had actually imported a stolen vehicle.
The Deputy Attorney General (AG), Dr Justice Srem-Sai, who was representing the state, opposed the motion, stating that the accused person should have the documents in relation to the vehicle because his name appeared as both importer and exporter in the customs declaration.
“The bill of lading is irrelevant and not in our possession. The customs declaration form already provides the necessary importation details,” the Deputy AG is quoted to have said.
The presiding judge, Justice John Eugene Nyante Nyadu, partially dismissed the application, indicating that some documents were not relevant to the trial, while others were not in the possession of the prosecution.
He ruled that the information sought under the first three categories of the motion, namely the bill of lading, port of entry, and vehicle clearance documents, had been sufficiently addressed through disclosures already made in the supplementary witness statement filed by prosecution witness Frank Cromwell.
The judge also ruled that even though the Attorney General’s office claimed it did not possess the police docket requested, the Police CID had shared limited extracts from their database.
He, therefore, directed; “Ghana Police Service to directly provide all relevant information in their possession concerning the BMW 740D with chassis number J020CM11428 to the defence team.”
The case was adjourned to Thursday, July 31, 2025, for the hearing of another pending motion.
The court had earlier dismissed a request by Adu Boahene’s lawyer for access to operational account details of National Security Coordinators dating back to 1992.
The Office of the Attorney General slapped Kwabena Adu Boahene; his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng; their associate, Mildred Boateng; and a company jointly owned by Adu Boahene and his wife, Advantage Solutions Limited, with 11 charges for allegedly transferring GH¢49 million (approximately $7 million) from the bureau’s account to his personal account.
Addressing the press on Monday, March 24, 2025, the Attorney General, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, stated that Adu Boahene was implicated in the unauthorised transfer of $7 million, originally allocated for cybersecurity infrastructure, into his private accounts.
“In his capacity as Director of the National Signals Bureau, Adu Boahene, on January 30, 2020, signed a contract on behalf of the Government of Ghana and the National Security on the one hand, and on the other hand, an Israeli company named RLC Holdings Limited. The contract was for the purchase of a cyber defence system software at a price of $7 million,” the Attorney General said.
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