Ghanaian authorities have charged a former top security official, Kwabena Adu-Boahene with looting millions of dollars from a cyber-security contract.
Ghanaian Prosecutors say Adu-Boahene, who is a former director of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), which monitors national security communications, used the money to buy property in Ghana and Britain and luxury cars.
Ghana’s Attorney General, Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, says Adu-Boahene will be prosecuted for theft, money laundering and diverting funds from a $7 million contract to buy a cyber-security defence system.
The charges are the latest in a corruption clampdown by Ghanaian President John Mahama.