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The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has reportedly arrested three directors of the Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML).
According to a report by GHOne TV, the arrest was affected during a raid on the company’s offices in Osu and Tema on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, by the OSP with the support of the National Security Secretariat.
The three directors who have been arrested were senior officers of the company.
The arrest forms part of the ongoing investigation into a contentious government contract reportedly worth over $500 million.
The raid was reportedly carried out with search warrants and was conducted in relation to the OSP’s ongoing investigation into the SML scandal.
The OSP was reportedly “interested in electronic information from the company’s servers.”
The SML scandal is one of the investigations in which former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has been declared a suspect for.
The OSP has indicated that it is examining agreements between Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) concerning petroleum and mineral revenue oversight.
SML was engaged by the GRA to provide real-time monitoring and audit services aimed at enhancing tax compliance and revenue assurance in the downstream petroleum sector.
In 2023, the scope of the contract was significantly expanded to include upstream petroleum activities and the mining sector, triggering heightened public scrutiny.
The government under former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, eventually, suspended the contract in 2024, following an audit by KPMG.
An amount of GH¢1.06 billion had already been paid to SML by the time the contract was suspended.
If allowed to proceed, the total cost to the state was projected to reach GH¢5.17 billion over five years.
In the wake of all these happenings, Civil Society Organisations have mounted a strong response to the findings, with a coalition of five Non-Governmental Organisations, filing a lawsuit against the previous government, seeking to recover GH¢1 billion already paid to SML.
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