🧵🚨BREAKING: Banker in Hot Water Over Theft from Access Bank Ghana

Lawrence Avorsey, a 31-year-old banker, is standing trial for allegedly siphoning funds from Access Bank Ghana Ltd. by manipulating transaction reversals.

Here’s how it went down. 👇 Avorsey, a staff member at the bank’s Spintex branch, allegedly orchestrated the theft between May 2023 and November 2024. He funneled funds into accounts held by accomplices: Rita Kaledzi, Abigail Adjei Dzanie, and Richard Mawuli Torsu.

The breakdown:
• GH¢75,631.55 reversed into Rita Kaledzi’s account.
• GH¢72,184.14 into Richard Mawuli Torsu’s account.
• GH¢16,636.45 into Abigail Adjei Dzanie’s account.
All three accomplices are currently at large.

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NPP elements used fake farms for millions of Exim Bank loans The Herald has uncovered disturbing details of how politically connected individuals and allies of the previous Akufo-Addo administration, siphoned huge sums of money from the Ghana Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank, Ghana) under the guise of promoting agriculture

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Ntim-Fordjour and two others have been reported to the Police CID for allegedly defrauding Mr. Agyen of GH₵600,000 under the pretense of securing him a government contract to build an AstroTurf in the Central Region. John Ntim-Fordjour, the 38-year-old Member of Parliament (MP) for the Assin South Constituency in the Central Region, has once again found himself on the wrong side of the law, over allegations of cash-for-contract fraud.

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Ex-CDS names 3 Senior Officers as behind Military procurement scandal

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A man claiming to be Colonel Segbawu Lameworna—an unfamiliar name within the Ghana Armed Forces—has penned an open letter to the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. William Agyapong, accusing him of a smear campaign against former CDS, Gen. Thomas Oppong-Peprah.

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Several members of the Ofori-Atta family have been implicated in a land acquisition involving the TDC.

Thread🧵 Among those named are Eno Ofori-Atta, former Dep. MD of the state-owned ADB and wife of Earl Ofori-Atta, who is the brother of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.

C.I.A. Said to Have Aided Plotters Who Overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana.

AND THESE ARE THE REASONS....🔽
The Central Intelligence Agency advised and supported a group of dissident army officers who overthrew the regime of President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in February 1966, first‐hand intelligence sources said yesterday.

The agency's role in the coup d'état was carried out without prior approval from the high‐level interagency group in Washington that monitors C.I.A. clandestine activities, these sources said. That group, known in 1966 as the 303 Committee, had specifically rejected a previous C.I.A. request seeking authority. to plot against Mr. Nkrumah, who had angered the United States by maintaining close ties to the Soviet Union and China.

There was no immediate comment from the C.I.A.

Although the C.I.A. has aften been investigated in the 12 years since Mr. Nkrumah was overthrown, there has never been any public disclosure at an agency role in the coup until now.

At one stage before the overthrow of Mr. Nkrumah, the sources said, the C.I.A.'s station chief in Accra, Ghana's capital, requested approval from higher headquarters for the deployment of a small squad of paramilitary experts, members of the agencies. Special Operations Group.

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Michael Soussoudis, cousin of JJ Rawlings, the Ghanaian spy, used love to turn a CIA agent into a double agent in 1985 and avoided a possible coup.

He is famously remembered for the Sharon Scranage espionage scandal, which involved the passing of classified information from Sharon Scranage, a clerk with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to Michael Soussoudis, an intelligence officer with Rawlings’ junta Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). Soussoudis formed a romantic relationship with the CIA employee Sharon Scranage sometime between May 27, 1983, and October 1984, eventually getting her to divulge confidential information to him.

The affair reportedly lasted 18 months. She claimed that she had informed the CIA station chief in Ghana of the relationship and was only told to “be careful.”
 Soussoudis was assigned to seduce Scranage and solicit US intelligence from her. Scranage was working in Ghana in the role of operations support assistant at the time.

Today in History🇬🇭: The 1964 Flagstaff House Kitchen Brawl: President Nkrumah vs. Constable Ametewee, and How Supt. Dagarti Died.

Read more… Police Constable Seth Nicholas Kwame Ametewee shot at President Nkrumah but Police Superintendent Salifu Dagarti, a British trained Ghanaian veteran Police Officer saved the President by shielding him and receiving the bullets on his behalf. Salifu died as a result of Ametewee’s gunshots.

One may say that President Kwame Nkrumah was the most physically attacked Ghanaian Head of State. There were several unsuccessful assassination attacks on him at several locations in Ghana including his office and residence, the Flagstaff House (now Jubilee House). In his 1969 book entitled, “Dark Days in Ghana”, Nkrumah himself put the number of unsuccessful assassination attacks on him at six (6) and he blamed it on the Police and others.

ICYMI: PDS SCANDAL and How they stole from the state

In 2018, PDS presented forged document for takeover of ECG The Minister for Energy John Peter Amewu said investigations conducted by the government established that a document that was presented by Power Distribution Service (PDS) as a guarantee for the takeover of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) was forged.

The Minister explained that even though the document indicated that a company in Qatar has guaranteed for PDS, the management of the company told the government it had no knowledge of the document.

‘Broke’ Ghana registers 618 delegates for COP 28 in Dubai

‘All party members’

List of corruption scandals in Akufo-Addo’s NPP government 1. Jubilee House, GRA boss caught in fuel smuggling scandal, sweeps matter under the carpet and allowed illegal vessel to escape Takoradi Ports

2. President dashes state cash of Gh¢227,000 to daughters to form company (My Sisters Keepers)