Kissi Agyebeng is the Special Prosecutor
The Office of the Special Prosecutor, led by Kissi Agyebeng, has shared details of how high-ranking officials of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) allegedly acquired apartments, suites, houses both locally and abroad, as well as twenty-two fuel haulage trucks, among other assets, using proceeds from an alleged GH¢280 million corruption scandal.
At a press briefing on Monday, June 2, 2025, the OSP said that the monies, believed to be proceeds of crime, were also used by the suspects to acquire and operate Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).
According to the OSP, the suspects used these OMCs to compete directly with the very companies they were mandated to regulate, an act allegedly carried out in collusion with complicit Oil Marketing Companies and their officials.
“As at close of day on May 30, 2025, the OSP had uncovered, through tracing and trailing, of an amount of GH¢280,516,127.19 being proceeds of the corrupt scheme, some of which has been used by the perpetrators to acquire identified and traced apartments, suites, houses in-country and abroad, twenty-two fuel haulage trucks, and the incorporation, acquisition, and operation of Oil Marketing Companies to compete with the oil marketing companies they were regulating,” the OSP shared.
He further stated that the investigations, conducted between 2022 and 2024, showed that the scheme was carried out using tactics such as threats, intimidation, coercion, subtle suggestions, bribery, and excessive regulatory pressure.
He added that this was done for the personal benefit of the individuals implicated.
“The OSP investigation has revealed that between 2022 and 2024, some high ranking and other officials of NPA devised and implemented a corrupt scheme of using public office for profit –through threats, intimidation, coercion, suggestions, bribery, and inordinate regulatory duress – to obtain, for their personal benefit, large sums of money from oil marketing companies and other entities under their statutory regulatory, licensing, oversight, and monitoring mandate in the petroleum downstream industry,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Kissi Agyebeng disclosed that criminal charges will be filed before the end of June 2025 against implicated NPA officials, executives of complicit OMCs, and their directors or senior managers.
“Upon filing of charges, we will provide full details including the identities of those involved, assets acquired, and items recovered,” he added.
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