Three former officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have been taken into custody by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in connection with the Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) scandal. The detained officials are Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu Amoah, a former Commissioner General of GRA, Dr. Isaac Crentsil, a former Commissioner of Customs who is now General Manager at SML, and Christian Tetteh Sottie, a former technical advisor to the GRA Commissioner General who is now Managing Director of SML.
The three were arrested after failing to meet bail conditions following their questioning by the OSP. They spent the night in the cells of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) and are currently assisting with investigations into the SML scandal. The scandal involves allegations of corruption and irregularities in the award of contracts to SML, including a $141 million payment made by the government by the end of 2023.
The SML scandal was exposed in an investigative documentary by three former reporters of The Fourth Estate, which revealed that SML could not substantiate its claims about the services it provided and the savings it made. The company has been accused of benefiting from sweetheart deals from the GRA and the Ministry of Finance, and the Special Prosecutor has declared Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta wanted over suspected corruption and corruption-related offenses.
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