The Office of the Attorney-General says it will file an appeal against the Court of Appeal’s decision acquitting former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Attionu Tamakloe, of all corruption charges.
In a statement shortly after the Court’s ruling, the Attorney-General said he has directed the Director of Public Prosecutions to immediately file a notice of appeal at the Supreme Court, along with an application for a stay of execution of the Court of Appeal’s judgment pending the outcome of the appeal.
He further noted that the state had opposed Attionu’s appeal.
Sedina Attionu was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison in 2024, after the High Court in Accra found her guilty of embezzlement and causing financial loss to the state. However, in 2024, while still not in the country, she instructed her lawyers to file an appeal against her conviction.
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She served as Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC from 2013 to 2016, during President John Mahama’s first term in office.