Justice Srem Sai, the Deputy Attorney-General, has debunked rumours that the Attorney-General’s office has lost evidence in the ongoing criminal trial of the Republic v Adu-Boahene.
According to the Deputy Attorney-General, as of June 18, 2025, the Attorney-General’s office had filed all the documents which it intended to rely on to prove the charges against the four accused persons.
The deputy Attorney-General in a post on Facebook wrote, “As of June 18, we had filed all the documents which we intend to rely on to prove the charges against the 4 accused persons in the case.
The documents include contracts of sale, bank wire transfer records, bank account statements, company registration documents, property ownership records and purchase receipts, INTERPOL stolen vehicle records, investigative caution statements and charge statements of each accused person, records of asset non-declaration, a flow chat of money movements through a complex web of bank accounts, and testimonies of our 3 prosecution witnesses”.
Justice Srem Sai further added, “Further, court certified copies of each of these documents have been duly served on each of the accused persons. So, it is not even realistic that the documents could be lost so as to jeopardise the prosecution of the case”.
The Deputy AG further revealed the current state of the trial, “ Before the start of the legal vacation on July 31, the first of our 3 prosecution witnesses had completed testifying and had been cross-examined by the lawyers of 3 of the 4 Accused Persons”.
He added that the Republic v Adu-Boahene criminal trial will resume in earnest in mid-October when the courts return from the legal vacation.
Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng, Mildred Donkor, and one other have been charged by the state for stealing, defrauding by false pretences, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit a crime.
According to the charge sheet, Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife stole state funds to the tune of GHc 49 million.
The Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, filed 11 charges against Kwabena Adu-Boahene and three others at the High Court in Accra.
“The charges filed against the accused persons included: stealing, contrary to Section 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); conspiracy to steal, contrary to Sections 23(1) and 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960; and defrauding by false pretences, contrary to Section 131(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
Some of the other charges against them are: wilfully causing financial loss to the state, contrary to Section 179A(3)(a) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); using public office for profit, contrary to Section 179C(a) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); and collaboration to commit a crime, to wit, using public office for profit, contrary to Section 179C(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)”.
Kwabena Adu Boahene and three others reported to the Accra High Court as the trial of the alleged stealing of GH¢49 million on July 18, as their trial began.
This comes following the High Court in Accra throwing out the former National Signals Bureau Director General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and three others’ request seeking access to documents dating from 1992.
Adu-Boahene and the three others were asking, among other things, for a “further order that the Attorney-General should make full disclosure and produce for inspection and make copies of the various National Security Coordinators’ special operations accounts.”
The accounts consist of the governments of Presidents Rawlings (1992 to 2001), Kufuor (2001 to 2009), Atta Mills (2009 to 2012), Mahama (2012 to 2017), Akufo-Addo (2017 to 2025) and Mahama (2025 to date).
Meanwhile, the High Court in Accra has partially dismissed an application for further disclosures filed by counsel for the first and second accused persons.
Lawyer for the Kwabena Adu-Boahen, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng, and the fourth accused filed a motion seeking disclosure of several documents, including the bill of lading for a BMW vehicle.
However, Dr Justice Srem-Sai opposed the motion, describing it as legally misinformed.
“This court orders the Ghana Police Service to directly provide all relevant information in their possession concerning the BMW 740D with chassis number J020CM11428 to the defence team,” the judge ruled.
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