The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has disclosed plans to charge former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and five other ex-government officials by the end of November 2025, after uncovering what it describes as “serious corruption and financial irregularities” tied to contracts between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML).
Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Thursday, October 30, Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng revealed that the findings pointed to “corruption, abuse of office, and procurement violations” involving top figures from the Ministry of Finance, the GRA, and persons linked to SML.
According to Mr Agyebeng, the individuals to be charged include Ernest Akore, former Chef de Cabinet to the then Minister of Finance; Emmanuel Kofi Nti, former Commissioner-General of the GRA; Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, former Commissioner-General of the GRA; Isaac Crentsil, former Commissioner of the Customs Division of the GRA and General Manager of SML; and Kwadwo Damoah, former Commissioner of the Customs Division of the GRA and sitting MP for Jaman South.
“The outcome of the investigation is that the OSP will charge the following persons with various corruption and corruption-related offences before the end of November 2025,” Mr Agyebeng stated.
He added that the OSP would also move to reclaim funds lost through the alleged misconduct. “As part of the process, the OSP will seek to recover the financial loss caused to the Republic from the persons listed above,” he explained.
Mr Agyebeng further announced that the OSP would retrieve GH₵125 million from SML, describing it as “unjust enrichment obtained unfairly at the expense of the Republic.” He added, “The OSP will recover a total amount of GH₵125 million from SML by way of disgorgement of unjust enrichment of overpayment, by the return of the benefit this amount obtained unfairly at the expense of the Republic.”
The investigation, he said, exposed “glaring statutory breaches, conflicts of interest, and unjustified payments” within the SML contracts, concluding that “there was no genuine need for contracting SML for the work it purported to perform.”
The Special Prosecutor also criticised the GRA for withholding full documentation of SML’s agreements with its third-party collaborators, calling the failure “a serious transparency lapse.” He described the contracts as “blighted by statutory breaches” and emphasised that SML lacked both the infrastructure and professional capacity to deliver the services it had been paid for.
