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The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has revealed that Solomon Asamoah, the former CEO of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) and a key suspect in the Sky Train Scandal that involved a $2m payment , is currently hiding in Senegal to evade prosecution.
Speaking to the press at a briefing today, Dr. Ayine noted that the CEO is hiding in Senegal, after initial tracking spotted him in South Africa, now he is in Senegal.
The Attorney-General further stated that the $2 million payment in question was made at the request of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of GIIF, Prof Ameyaw Ekumfi, and Solomon Asamoah, the CEO.
“In respect of SkyTrain, we can confirm that the $2 million was paid at the request of the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ghana Infrastructure Fund (GIIF), Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, and then CEO, Solomon Asamoah who is currently hiding in Senegal. We tracked him first and noticed that he was in South Africa. So, he left Ghana on February 2, to South Africa.
“We were monitoring him there, and then he left, and he is now in Senegal. When we contacted him, he told us that he would not come to Ghana until three months from now.
“So we are patiently waiting for him. If he wants to be tried in absentia, that is his choice to make. But we have the prosecutorial authority to prosecute him in absentia. The person who acted with him to transfer that money, Prof Akumfi is in the country. So, if there is going to be a delay, we will start the prosecution with him being a suspect who is being tried in absentia.
According to the Attorney General, investigations done, showed that there was no board approval of this…
“There was no board approval for the transaction, and the conditions precedent to disbursement had not been met,” Mr Ayine said.
“Our review of the board’s minutes confirmed that other board members had no knowledge of this transaction. In fact, one member even questioned why GIIF was in a hurry to make the payment, but no significant answer was given to him by the two persons who skimmed and transferred $2m of taxpayers’ money to a Mauritius company.”
