3rd Prosecution Witness reveals details of transfer of funds made to companies formed by Adu Boahene

The 3rd prosecution witness in the trial of former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and two others has revealed details of cash withdrawals and money transfers which she was authorized to make by the accused persons as the one operating a company created by the accused persons for the purpose of moving these cash sums around.

On Wednesday, April 29, Mildred Donkor, the 3rd prosecution witness for the state in the trial took to the witness box and was led in evidence-in-chief by State Attorneys from the Attorney General’s Department and made these revelations in her Witness Statements which was adopted by the Court.

Mildred Donkor who had earlier in the trial been withdrawn from prosecution as an accused person by the Attorney General to serve as a witness, told the court that she was made a Director of the 4th accused company, Advantage Solutions, which is a shareholder of a fictitious company, BNC Communications Limited Solutions. She said Adu Boahene brought her the company registration documents at home and asked her to sign to become a director and further instructed her to open a bank account for that company.

She indicated that after opening the BNC account, she transferred monies from that account to the shareholder company, Advantage Solutions, to faciliate withdrawals because the BNC account was not issued a Cheque book immediately and the accused needed her to make withdrawals and payments.

Her further testimony was that even though she was made to sign as Director of this company, she didn’t know anything about what the company was formed for, was never invited to any Board Meeting and was not involved in any decision of the company. Rather, she was given pre-signed cheque books by Adu Boahene and was from time to time instructed by Adu Boahene or his wife to fill in those pre signed blank cheques and make withdrawals from the company accounts and transfer them to 3rd parties.

“To satisfy the minimum directorship requirement for A4 (Advantage Solutions), he requested that I become the second director, which I consented to.”

Along the line in 2018, A1 and his wife introduced me to another company - B.N.C Communications Bureau Limited. He called me on the phone that we should open a new company. The company registration documents were brought to me to home to sign.

I took no major decisions - whether financial, operations or strategic - on my own. I followed the decisions and instructions of the first accused and his wife. I was never invited to neither did I ever attend a board of directors' meeting as a director”

I was only given pre-signed cheque books and instructed from time to time to make cheque payments and withdrawals of huge amounts of money to 3rd parties most of whom are friends and family members of the first accused person”

According to the Witness, she was also made a Director of 7 other companies which she believes are owned by Adu Boahene.

The companies include Vertex Solutions Limited, Vertex Properties Limited,Enterprise Dream Collections Ltd, Food Plan Ltd, Kream Auto Collections, Securigence Limited and Urban Kid Limited

She further revealed that the accused gave her pre-signed cheque books and occasionally instructed her to enter and withdraw huge amounts from Advantage Solutions accounts which had received funds from BNC Communications Limited and to further transfer these funds within the 7 other companies owned by the accused.

Background

Adu-Boahene, his wife Angela Boateng and Advantage Solutions Limited (ASL), are standing trial for allegedly misappropriating GH₵49 million meant for the purchase of government cybersecurity software.

The prosecution alleges that the money was moved through a complex web of companies, ultimately ending up in ASL and was used to acquire properties in Accra, Kumasi, and London.

The court has adjourned the trial to 5th May 2026 for cross examination of the 3rd prosecution witness.