Former president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi has
been slapped with three charges including fraud report from adomnews.
A former member of the Association’s
Executive Committee Abdulai Alhassan also faces two charges namely conspiracy
to commit fraud and fraud.
Principal State Attorney Victoria Asiedua told an Accra High Court
Wednesday that the two individuals executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
on behalf of a non-existent company claiming to be attracting sponsorship for
the Ghana Premier League.
They are further alleged to have
demanded $12 million from the supposed investors promising to land them major
contracts in Ghana.
This money the prosecution says Mr Nyantakyi said will be distributed as follows; $5 million for the President, $3 million for the Vice President, $2 million for the Roads and Highway’s Minister, $1 million dollars for his Deputy with the rest reserved for the Mr Nyantakyi and Mr Alhassan.
The former football
administrator was in 2018 busted in a documentary using the name of the
President to peddle influence.
Since the documentary done by
Tiger Eye PI was broadcast in June 2018, government has been under
pressure to take action against the main target of the investigations, Kwesi
Nyantakyi.
The AG’s office in the
documents filed in court list the charges against him as conspiracy to commit
fraud, fraud and corruption by a public officer.
Mr Nyantakyi was admitted to bail in the sum of 1 million cedis
with three sureties, one to be justified. Same conditions apply to Mr Alhassan.
They are also required to report every Friday at the police CID. The case has been adjourned to March 25 for case management conference.
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