The Attorney General’s Department has been ordered to file its statement of case within seven days in a case involving one of the five accused persons standing trial over the alleged embezzlement of some $4 million belonging to the National Communications Authority (NCA).
The order came from the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Prof. Ashie Kottey after the Attorney General requested for an extension of time.
A former board member of the NCA, Nana Owusu Ensaw, had filed a certiorari application at the Supreme Court seeking to quash a decision by the High Court to dismiss his application for “submission of no case” and for him to open his defence.
The Supreme court judge while granting the application ordered the Attorney General Department to file its statement of case within seven days.
Background
The five are said to have fraudulently withdrawn some four million dollars from NCA accounts without justification.
Reports indicate that an Israeli company, NSO Group Technology Limited was contracted to supply the surveillance equipment at the cost of $6 million, to enable National Security monitor conversations of persons believed to be engaged in terrorism.
IDL was also reportedly charging $2 million to facilitate the transaction, bringing the total sum to $8 million.
But the three, through the said contract, allegedly withdrew $4 million from the accounts of the NCA and have failed to account for it.
But only $1 million was allegedly paid into the accounts of the Israeli company.