The Accra High Court has admitted the full set of bank statements from UMB bank for former National Signals Bureau Director Kwabena Adu-Boahene into evidence after lawyers tendered the documents during proceedings.
The document is a bank statement of Kwabena Adu Boahene’s account with UMB Bank covering the period from January 2017 to February 2025. It shows pre-finance transfers made by Kwabena Adu Boahene into the National Security Coordinator’s Account at Fidelity Bank.
Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife Angela Adjei Boateng face multiple charges, including theft, causing financial loss to the state, and money laundering. The charges relate to a 49.1 million cedis cybersecurity software deal involving the National Security.
Lawyers for the accused, led by Samuel Atta Akyea, during cross-examination of the prosecution’s second witness, established a pattern of deposits made by the former National Signals Bureau to the account of the National Security Coordinator to pre-finance operations.
The Head of Finance at the National Signals Bureau, Ruby Edith Adumoah, admitted in court that without the infusion of approximately 2.7 million cedis and 1.6 million cedis at different times into the Coordinator’s account, payment to Ability Computers & Software Industries of Israel would not have been possible.
The witness also acknowledged that at some point, the National Security was cash-strapped, with a balance of 11,000 cedis in the National Security Coordinator’s account, a situation that required Kwabena Adu Boahene’s intervention.
Responding to a question concerning an email sent by UMB Bank to the Economic and Organised Crime Office regarding the bank statement of Kwabena Adu-Boahene, the witness affirmed that although the statement covered the period from January 2017 to February 2025, the Attorney General had not disclosed the entire document.
Samuel Atta Akyea therefore urged the court to admit the full bank statement from January 2017 to February 2025 into evidence, but Principal State Attorney Esi Dentaa Yankah objected to this submission.
She argued that the document was not authored by the witness and therefore she could not speak to it.
In his ruling, Justice Francis Achiponga noted that the document would be admitted as evidence since the statement had already been partially tendered without any objections.
This means that the court will be able to rely on the bank statements as evidence during the trial for the former National Signals Bureau director.
By Laud Adu-Asare
