Exim Bank Case: ‘Sources say Wontumi went seeking to pay alleged fraud amount’ — Austine Woode

Ghanaian broadcaster based in the UK, Austine Woode, has claimed that sources at Exim Bank say Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, visited the institution seeking a meeting to arrange payment in an alleged fraud and deceit case.

In a post on his X page on June 3, 2026, the broadcaster noted that Exim Bank refused the meeting and directed Chairman Wontumi to instead engage the Attorney General.

“Sources at Exim Bank say Chairman Wontumi came there asking for a meeting to pay the amount in an alleged fraud and deceit case, but the bank rejected it and asked them to go to the Attorney General,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Chairman Wontumi, has been charged at the High Court in Accra.

According to a charge sheet filed by the Deputy Attorney-General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, Wontumi and one Thomas Antwi-Boasiako, a Director of Wontumi Farms Limited, are alleged to have used false pretences to obtain GH¢14,302,000.00 from the Ghana Export-Import Bank.

He is also accused of uttering a forged document with the intent to defraud Exim Bank officials by allegedly using a forged receipt to obtain GH¢4,000,000.00 from the bank.

Chairman Wontumi pleads not guilty in GH¢30 million EXIM Bank loan case

Additionally, he is said to have taken part of the GH¢14,302,000.00 from Wontumi Farms Limited, funds the prosecution alleges were acquired through fraud.

The prosecution further alleges that all three accused persons, in the course of the transaction with Ghana Exim Bank, intentionally caused the bank to lose over GH¢30,000,000.00.

However, Chairman Wontumi, who appeared before the court presided over by Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Baasit, pleaded not guilty to four counts of defrauding by false pretence, forgery, money laundering, and intentionally causing financial loss of over GH¢30 million to a public body.

Sources at Exim bank says Chairman Wontumi came there asking for a meeting to pay the amount in alleged fraud and deceit case but the bank rejected and asked them to go to the Attorney General

— Austine (@obiMpenaAustine) June 3, 2026

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