Osei-Tutu Prempeh in trouble over $526,000, ?10,200

Mr. Osei-Tutu Prempeh, the Auditor-General on leave who was recently arrested by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) while worshipping at the Christ the King Church in Accra, is in big trouble, according to The Daily Guide.

His trouble emanates from his alleged fraudulent withdrawal of various sums of moneys amounting to $526,000 (equivalent of 3,682 billion cedis).

The monies according to The Daily Guide’s investigations, were taken at $15000 (105 million cedis) at a time, from the UN Imprest Dollar Account kept with the Bank of Ghana (BOG) between 1997 and the year 2000.

In addition Mr Prempeh allegedly used fraudulent means to withdraw US $300,000 (2.1billion cedis) over the same period ostensibly for use as T&T (traveling and transportation expenses) whenever he traveled outside the country.

From October 1997, he is said to have fraudulently withdrew $15,000 per every quarter of the year, for his personal use and couched or invented beautiful terms for that.

He termed his alleged fraudulent withdrawals as “Auditor-General’s Updated Abated Consolidated Allowance” believably to befuddle, transfix and confuse personnel of the Bank of Ghana to release those funds to him although they were later channeled for his exclusive personal use.

These US Dollar funds are fed into the account at the central bank, from the Auditor-General’s Unite Nations Imprest account in New York.

The available evidence however, shows that he has not followed the normal practice of accounting for such traveling allowances.