The Attorney General of Ghana announced on Wednesday that a former top security official in Ghana is officially being prosecuted for “theft, money laundering and embezzlement.”

Ex-director of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, who monitors communication signals mainly related to security in Ghana, is accused in connection with a seven million dollar contract signed in January 2020 with an Israeli company. According to a document signed on 30 April by the Attorney General, Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, “the investigations confirm that the total amount of the money”, seven million dollars, corresponds according to Mr. Adu-Boahene “to the purchase price of the cyber defense system”. However, “no cybersecurity system corresponding to the description in the contract of January 30, 2020 has been received”. For his part, the prosecutor indicates that the embezzled amounts “were used to buy and build various real estate properties located in Accra, Kumasi and London, as well as to buy a fleet of luxury cars