Ghana: Eoco Did Not Contact Israeli Firm Over $7m Cyber Defence Contract - Witness
In an ongoing embezzlement trial, a witness testified that Ghana's Economic and Organised Crime Office failed to verify the delivery of cyber security equipment with the Israeli supplier. The former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau is accused of financial misconduct involving a $7 million contract.
Why it matters
The case raises questions about government oversight and the integrity of procurement processes in public sector contracts.
A witness in the ongoing trial of former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, on Wednesday told the Accra High Court that the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) did not contact ISC Holdings, the Israeli company contracted to supply the cyber security equipment, at the centre of the case.
Mr Adu-Boahene and two others are standing trial on charges of alleged embezzlement and financial misconduct in connection with a $7 million cyber defence system contract.
ISC Holdings was the company the NSB said had been procured in 2020 to supply the cyber defence equipment, which the prosecution alleges was never delivered.
Under cross-examination by counsel for the accused, Samuel Atta Akyea, an EOCO investigator, Mr Frank Marshall Cromwell, confirmed that the anti-graft agency did not engage ISC Holdings to establish whether the equipment had actually been purchased and delivered.
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