GH¢49.1 Million NSB Trial: Only GH¢9.5m reached Israeli supplier - EOCO officer testifies

The cross-examination of the fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of embattled former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, Frank Marshall Cromwell, a staff officer of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), started on Monday, June 22, 2026.

During the proceedings, the EOCO officer, who was the investigator in the matter, told the court that an invoice presented by Kwabena Adu-Boahene for the purchase of the GH¢49.1 million cyber defence system was fake, according to multiple reports.

Marshall Cromwell is reported to have told the court that only about GH¢9.5 million was paid to ISC Holdings, the Israeli firm that was supposed to supply the cyber defence system, even though the entire GH¢49.1 million was transferred for the said transaction.

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“In the GH¢49.1 million cybersecurity theft case, the EOCO investigator, Frank Marshall Cromwell, has told the court that Kwabena Adu-Boahene paid GH¢9,537,500 to ISC Holdings for the cyber defence system, despite the full GH¢49.1 million being earmarked and transferred for its payment,” Accra-based TV3 wrote in a post shared on X on Monday.

The EOCO investigator also told the court that after the account holding the money was depleted, the former NSB boss and his wife, Angella Adjei-Boateng, the second accused in the case, instructed their bankers at UMB to close the accounts and transfer the remaining funds to Advantage Solutions, a company they own.

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Adu-Boahene, Adjei-Boateng and their company face 11 charges for allegedly transferring GH¢49 million (approximately $7 million) from the bureau's account to their personal accounts.

Addressing the press on Monday, March 24, 2025, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, stated that Adu-Boahene was implicated in the unauthorised transfer of $7 million, originally allocated for cybersecurity infrastructure, into his private accounts.

"In his capacity as Director of the National Signals Bureau, Mr Adu-Boahene, on January 30, 2020, signed a contract on behalf of the Government of Ghana and National Security on the one hand, and on the other hand, an Israeli company named RLC Holdings Limited. The contract was for the purchase of a cyber defence system software at a price of $7 million," the Attorney General said.

Providing further details, Dr Ayine disclosed that just days after signing the agreement, Adu-Boahene initiated a suspicious transaction.

"On February 6, 2020, he then transferred an initial amount of GH¢27,100,000 from the National Signals Bureau account at Fidelity Bank to a private BNC account at UMB. Official documentation on the transfer reveals that the amount was for the payment of cyber defence system software. He transferred the money to his private company," he told the media in Accra.

According to Dr Ayine, investigations further uncovered that the former NSB boss allegedly channelled the funds not only into his personal account but also into accounts belonging to his wife.

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