A Former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others have been charged for supposedly making monetary misfortune to the state.
Cassiel Ato Forson, a former Chief Director of the Ministry of Health; Sylvester Anemana, and a finance manager; Richard Jakpa are claimed to have cost the state to lose €2.37 million in an arrangement to buy 200 ambulances for the country somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2016.
Richard Jakpa is said to have utilized his organization Jakpa at Business, to introduce a proposition and term advance to the Ministry of Health to fund the stockpile of 200 ambulances to the Government.
Bureau along these lines supported an Executive endorsement for the venture, as per the AG.
The three have been hauled to the Accra High Court by the Attorney-General on five counts of wilfully making monetary misfortune to the state, abetment to wilfully make monetary misfortune to the state, repudiation of the Public Procurement Act, and deliberately twisting public property.
The nation brought about a $2.4 million misfortune later 30 ambulances were obtained in 2014 by the Ministry of Health, however were subsequently observed to be broken.
With 200 ambulances initially expected to be bought, the public authority suspended the arrangement later the ones which had been conveyed didn't meet the necessary details.
Mr Forson had before expressed that the Finance Ministry at the time as it were "gave at sight letters of credit" for the Health Ministry later they had placed in a solicitation.
"The Ministry of Finance likewise instruct the Controller and Accountant General's Department to pay for the bank charges gathered to the Bank of Ghana because of the issuance of letters of credit in the interest of the Ministry of Health," Mr. Forson said.
By Dauda Mohammed/remedynewshub.com
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