Mr Ernest Owusu-Poku, Inspector General of Police on Wednesday denied media reports that the missing 46,000 dollars entrusted to the dismissed Youth and Sports Minister, Mallam Yusif Isa has been found.
The IGP told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Wednesday, ” As far as we are concerned it is never true, no money has been found yet.”
“We have sent people everywhere to check on the report but nothing has come out of it,” Mr Owusu-Poku said.
The Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper of Wednesday, March 21,reported that the money has been found in a compartment of a car parked at the Ministry of Youth Sports, and that it has been sent to the Bank of Ghana for identification.
The paper however, failed to indicate the owner of the car and who found the money. Police on Tuesday started investigations into the mystery surrounding the loss of the money three weeks ago.
The money was to be used to pay winning bonuses to players of the senior national team in a World Cup qualifying match in Sudan.
Mallam Isa who was given the money to take along to Sudan, said he put it into his suitcase after consultations with officials of the Ghana Football Association who later took his luggage to the airport.
The officials have, however, denied the former minister’s claim saying he removed the money from the bag after he was told the risk involved.
Source: GhanaWeb
