Adu-Boahene Trial: Atta Akyea reacts to forgery allegations

Samuel Atta Akyea, the lawyer of the embattled former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has reacted to claims that his side presented a forged document as proof of the purchase of the cyber defence system at the centre of the trial.

Speaking to the media after court proceedings on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, the lawyer indicated that he was the person who obtained the said document from the Israeli company that supplied the defence system and that there is nothing fake about it.

He stated that people are saying that the document, which is very key to the determination of the case, is fake, without any proof.

“A very cruel propaganda was put in the public space that I forged documents mandating from ISC Holdings Limited in Israel. I consider it very, very cruel, and the reason why it is being carried out that way is that that is the coup de grâce of the prosecution's case.

“Throughout the trial, the prosecution is running away from calling a material witness, the vendor, the one who supplied the cyber defence system. They don't want to call it - the Israeli company,” he added.

He asserted that the state investigative bodies should have contacted the Israeli firm at the heart of the matter, but they refused to.

“Because when you say that somebody has stolen your money under the guise of acquiring a property, and the property has never been delivered, and he has paid some of the money to the vendor, a serious, incredible investigation [would be] to send EOCO and the Attorney General to find the Israeli company, first of all, to say, have you received this money, and have you delivered the cyber defence system?

“That is the poverty of this trial. Throughout this whole case, the Attorney General and EOCO didn't have the guts to confront the vendor, the one who supplied the cyber defence system,” he added.

He also asserted that it is laughable to state that he forged documents and presented them to the state security apparatus because they can easily verify them.

“How can I forge documents from Israel and give it to the Attorney General and give it to National Security and give it to EOCO? That is insanity. I gave the documents to them, the documents I obtained from Israel; the documents are not forged at all.

“That is the absurdity of the propaganda being turned out that somebody has forged documents to come and deceive the court… we are not the ones that are going to forge anything. The case is speaking for itself,” he fumed.

Atta Akyea, a former Member of Ghana’s Parliament, also claimed that everybody in the national security sphere knows that the cyber defence system has been delivered, but the facts on the matter are being misconstrued in order to convict his client.

Adu-Boahene Trial: Forensic probe shows cyber defence system purchase letter is fake – EOCO officer

Meanwhile, Frank Cromwell, the lead Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) investigator in the case, has told the court that a letter purportedly confirming the purchase of a Cyber Defence System from an Israeli company is fake.

According to a report by GHOne TV, Cromwell, who is the fourth prosecution witness in the case, made the claim during proceedings on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

“Our forensic investigations show that the letter purported to be confirming the purchase of the Cyber Defence System is fake,” the EOCO officer is quoted as saying.

About the case

Adu-Boahene, Adjei-Boateng and their company are facing 11 charges over the alleged transfer of about GH¢49 million, equivalent to approximately US$7 million, from the bureau’s account to private accounts.

Addressing the media on March 24, 2025, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Dominic Ayine said Adu-Boahene had been implicated in the alleged unauthorised transfer of US$7 million allocated for cybersecurity infrastructure into private accounts.

“In his capacity as Director of the National Signals Bureau, 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,” Ayine said.

He said investigations showed that days after the agreement was signed, Adu-Boahene initiated a transaction involving the funds.

“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 said.

Ayine further alleged that the former NSB boss subsequently channelled portions of the funds into his personal account and accounts belonging to his wife.

Watch a video of Atta Akyea's remarks below:

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