The Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has disclosed that the Office of Special Prosecutor (OSP) has uncovered a GH₵280 million corruption scandal at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA).
The scandal he noted involves several top officials accused of abusing their positions for personal gain.
According to him, the investigations were launched in November 2024, and they have discovered a deep-rooted network of financial misconduct and abuse of power within the NPA.
Addressing a press briefing on Monday, June 2, 2025, he said the scandal was between 2022 and 2024.
He indicated that the investigations discovered that some senior and other officials at the Authority executed a corrupt scheme that exploited their regulatory power to extract substantial sums of money from oil marketing companies (OMCs) and other players in the petroleum downstream sector.
“This was reportedly achieved through threats, intimidation, coercion, veiled suggestions, bribery, and excessive regulatory pressure — all aimed at enriching the perpetrators,” he said.
Mr Agyebeng further disclosed that his office on May 30, 2025, traced a total of GH₵280,516,127.19 believed to be proceeds of this illicit scheme.
Part of the funds, he said, was used to acquire luxury apartments and homes both in Ghana and abroad, along with 22 fuel haulage trucks.
Additionally, some NPA officials used the illicit funds to establish and operate their own oil marketing companies, placing them in direct and unethical competition with the very businesses they were tasked to regulate.
He announced that the OSP will file criminal charges before the end of June 2025 against the first batch of implicated individuals.
“Upon filing of charges, we will provide full details — including the identities of those involved, assets acquired, and items recovered,” the OSP said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
