Special operations claim in GH¢49.1m NSB case was afterthought- EOCO investigator tells court
An EOCO investigator, Frank Marshall Cromwell, told the Accra High Court on Thursday, July 2, that Mr Adu Boahene’s claim that part of the money was used for special operations was not supported by the findings of investigators.
A memo written years after GH¢49.1 million left the National Signals Bureau account has become a key point of dispute in the criminal trial of former NSB Director-General Kwabena Adu Boahene.
An EOCO investigator, Frank Marshall Cromwell, told the Accra High Court on Thursday, July 2, that Mr Adu Boahene’s claim that part of the money was used for special operations was not supported by the findings of investigators.
He described the explanation as an afterthought.
Mr Cromwell, who is the fourth prosecution witness, was continuing his evidence-in-chief in the case involving Mr Adu Boahene, his wife Angela Boateng, and Advantage Solutions Limited.
The three are standing trial over allegations that GH¢49.1 million meant for the purchase of cybersecurity software for the National Signals Bureau was misappropriated.
The prosecution’s case is that the money was routed through private companies and later used for purposes unrelated to the cyber defence contract.
Led by the Deputy Attorney-General, the investigator said the Bureau initially released GH¢49.1 million for the acquisition of a cyber defence system from Israeli company ISC Holdings.
He told the court that only GH¢9,537,000 was paid to ISC Holdings as part of the contract.
According to him, the remaining funds were moved into a private account and later withdrawn through various transactions.
Mr Cromwell said the withdrawals were allegedly made by private individuals and either handed over to Mr Adu Boahene or paid into third-party accounts on his instructions.
He testified that the withdrawals continued over several months.
By August 2020, he said, almost all the money had been depleted, leaving only about GH¢600,000 in the account.
The investigator said EOCO examined a memo dated May 6, 2025, in which Mr Adu Boahene sought to justify the expenditure by linking it to special operations.
However, he told the court that the investigation did not support that explanation.
He said investigators found no basis to accept the claim that the remaining funds were properly applied to special operations.
The evidence forms part of the prosecution’s attempt to trace how the GH¢49.1 million was allegedly handled after it left the NSB account.
The case has been adjourned to Friday, July 3, 2026, for cross-examination of Mr Cromwell to begin.
