Adu-Boahene Trial: EOCO investigator confirms NSC instructed opening of 'Coordinator's Account'

The lead investigator of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Frank Marshal Cromwell, has told the Accra High Court that a Fidelity Bank account at the centre of the GH¢49.1 million transaction investigation, identified in bank records as “Coordinator’s Account – NSC,” was opened on the instructions of the then National Security Coordinator.

Cromwell, the prosecution’s fourth witness in the trial involving former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, made the revelation during cross-examination by defence counsel Samuel Atta Akyea at the Special Court 1 on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.

The EOCO investigator confirmed that the National Security Coordinator requested the opening of the account and selected “Director BNC” as the identity attached to it.

When counsel asked, “In your testimony, you referred to the National Security Coordinator’s request for the opening of the additional bank account,” Cromwell responded, “Yes, my Lord.”

Atta Akyea further asked: “The Coordinator, by this letter, also chose the name Director BNC as the identity of this account?”

Cromwell replied: “Yes, my Lord.”

The witness explained that the letter from the National Security Coordinator was a directive to Fidelity Bank to open an account bearing the name “Director BNC”, with Adu-Boahene, the National Security Coordinator and another person listed as signatories.

“It’s a letter directing the bank to open an account with the name Director BNC, where A1 was a director and would be a signatory together with the Coordinator and some other person,” Cromwell told the court.

The witness also acknowledged that although the account was referred to as a BNC account in some documents, the name appearing on bank statements and transaction records was “Coordinator’s Account – NSC.”

Counsel put it to him: “You were, however, aware that the name on bank statements and as it appears on transactions on the account was Coordinator’s Account – NSC?”

Cromwell answered: “Yes, my Lord.”

Cromwell further confirmed that EOCO sought clarification from Fidelity Bank to understand the nature and ownership of the account.

Asked whether he sought official clarification from Fidelity Bank regarding the account, the witness responded: “Yes, my Lord.”

The case has been adjourned to Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 12:00 pm for continuation of the cross-examination of Cromwell.