{"id":412421,"date":"2017-08-23T00:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/23\/court-chases-awuah-darko-adomonline-com\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T00:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:16:24","slug":"court-chases-awuah-darko-adomonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/23\/court-chases-awuah-darko-adomonline-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Court chases Awuah-Darko &#8211; AdomOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/ghana-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Awuah-Darko.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"510\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/xAwuah-Darko-696x510.jpg.pagespeed.ic.WTHqe-qB1m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Awuah Darko\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"2198680569\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>An Accra High Court (Financial and Economic Crime Division) has ordered the immediate past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, to disclose his bank accounts details to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The order follows a request brought before the court by D\/Sgt. Charles Quayson of the Financial and Forensic Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Accra, in July, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Order for Disclosure of Bank Account Details\u2019 was to assist the police with its investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Awuah-Darko has been on the radar of the security agencies as a wanted man since the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the investigations being conducted by the police, the former BOST MD is also being investigated by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) and would not be spared any breathing space when he enters the country from his base in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Awuah-Darko, according to our sources, is being investigated for at least 12 major transactions he supervised whilst in office.<\/p>\n<p>One of them involves the alleged payments and withdrawals from the government\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>The account in question is the Chief of Staff\u2019s \u2018Sundry Account\u2019 which the former BOST boss allegedly lodged moneys into on regular basis and which was reportedly cashed by the Office of the Chief of Staff under previous President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p><b>Flagstaff House Deal<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The majority New Patriotic Party (NPP) had said at a press conference in June that there were massive rotten deals under the former BOST MD, with the Office of then President John Mahama and his Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, allegedly siphoning huge amounts of money \u2013 between GH\u00a22.5 million and GH\u00a23.5 million \u2013 at the end of every two weeks from 2015 under the guise of security transfers, amounting to about GH\u00a240.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents from the Majority in parliament, the particulars for the transactions indicated \u201ctransfer of funds accrued from security fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Dubious Transfers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Beginning August 28, 2015, BOST transferred GH\u00a23.5 million; released GH\u00a23 million on October 2, the same year and another GH\u00a23 million on November 12, while on December 23, GH\u00a220 million was transferred.<\/p>\n<p>On February 05, March 15, April 15 and May 13 \u2013 all in 2016 \u2013 GH\u00a22.5 million on each occasion was transferred by BOST while on June 09, July 15 and August 24 in the same year, GH\u00a23 million each was transferred.<\/p>\n<p>Later on September 29 and November 17, 2016, GH\u00a23.5 million each was transferred by BOST while on January 03, 2017 \u2013 when it was left with just three days for the Mahama-led government to leave office \u2013 BOST transferred GH\u00a23 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra High Court (Financial and Economic Crime Division) has ordered the immediate past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, to disclose his bank accounts details to the police. The order follows a request brought before the court by D\/Sgt. 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