Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney General has fingered the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) Kwabena Adu-Boahene for allegedly diverting over $7m into private accounts.
According to the Attorney General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene was arrested for financial misconduct relating to a $7 million cyber defence system contract.
The Attorney General further revealed Kwabena Adu-Boahene laundered state funds through real estate investments in Accra and abroad.
The deputy Deputy Director of EOCO Raymond Archer led an arrest of the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau Mr Kwabena Adu Boahene at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
According to reports, Kwabena Adu Boahene was arrested a while ago on his arrival at the Kotoka International Airport.
Upon his arrival on a British Airways flight from London, United Kingdom, on Thursday, 20 March 2025, Kwabena Adu Boahene went through immigration formalities and took a seat to wait for his bags.
The information gathered suggests, that he was later informed by the immigration officers stationed at the VIP section that there was an issue with his name which needed to be resolved at the main office at Terminal 3.
Adu Boahene willingly followed the officers to the immigration office at the Terminal 3 departure section after some minutes he was told that he was on the Stop List by EOCO and wanted accordingly.
The Deputy Director of EOCO Raymond Archer and his team handcuffed Mr Adu Boahene at the departure and escorted him through the airport departure hall and was pushed into a white Nissan Navara pickup with registration No GN 8850-22 with fully armed men.
The arrest was carried out under a joint operation between investigators from EOCO and the Attorney-General’s Department.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Dr Ayine disclosed, “In his capacity as Director of the National Signals Bureau, Mr Adu-Boahene on January 30, 2020, signed a contract on behalf of the government of Ghana and the National Security on one hand and 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.”
“On February 6, 2020, he then transferred an initial amount of GH¢27,100,000 from the National Signals Bureau account at Fidelity Bank to a private BNC account at UMB.
Official documentation on the transfer reveals that the amount was for the payment of cyber defence system software. He transferred the money to his private company”, he added.
The Attorney General further added that Adu-Boahene and his wife purchased several landed properties in Ghana and abroad over the time that these monies hit their private accounts.
