The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng has stated that the Office of Special Prosecutor (OSP) will charge former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and six others on corruption charges over the controversial SML deal.
In a press briefing on Thursday, Kissi Agyebeng said charges will be filed against the individuals by end of November 2025.
The five other individuals named in the case include current and former Commissioner-Generals of the GRA. They include;
1.Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, former Commissioner-General of the GRA
2.Emmanuel Kofi Nti, former Commissioner-General of the GRA
3.Isaac Crentsil, former Commissioner of the Customs Division of the GRA and General Manager for Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited
4.Col. (Rtd.) Kojo Damoah, former Commissioner of the Customs Division of the GRA and Member of Parliament for Dzaman South
5.Ernest Akore, former Chief of Staff to the Minister of Finance
“Before end of November 2025, we will file charges at the criminal court,” the Special Prosecutor said.
Speaking about the details of the case, Kissi Agyebeng said investigations revealed that there was no genuine need for engaging SML for the services it purported to perform.
The contracts, he said, were secured through “self-serving official patronage, sponsorship, and promotion based on false and unverified claims.”
He noted that the former Finance minister was personally involved in pushing the deal despite knowing the company could not deliver results.
“Mr. Ofori-Atta’s participation in personally promoting the course of SML had become pronounced. He was placed in direct knowledge of SML’s operational and full incapacity, and that it was hardly performing any service to deserve the payment of fees,” he said.
“There was no genuine need for contracting SML for the obligations it’s purported to perform,” he added.
Beside the SML deal, Ken Ofori-Atta is also being investigated by the OSP for other corruption-related cases for when he was finance minister. In June, the OSP declared him a wanted person and has since placed him on the Interpol Red Notice.
The former minister is currently in the US for medical reasons.
The OSP has not yet been able to extradite him to Ghana to answer to investigators probing the case.
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The SML investigations
The OSP began investigating Strategic Mobilisation Enhancement Limited (SML) following a petition by the Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate’s petition to the OSP was based on its investigation into shady operations of SML, and a contract signed between the company, GRA, and the Finance Ministry.