SFO cannot probe Goosie's company – Sapati

Accra (Greater Accra) The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Tuesday that it did not see any criminal element in the transactions in a company in which Mr. Augustine "Goosie" Tanoh, flag-bearer of the National Reform Party, has majority shares, and could not therefore probe it.

Mr. B.A. Sapati, acting Executive Director of SFO, told journalists at the Meet the Press series in Accra that, "the SFO has formed an opinion that the Transport and Commodity General Limited (TC&GL) affair is a pure banking transaction."

Mr. Tanoh has come under fire recently for allegedly using his political influence when he was with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to obtain a huge loan for the company that produces and exports cassava chips.

Mr. Sapati mentioned a number of cases his outfit has completed and forwarded to the Attorney-General's Office for a fiat.

They include one case of misappropriation of government funds at Hohoe Government Hospital and two cases of embezzlement of poverty alleviation funds at the Afram Plains District Assembly and the Keta District Assembly.

He said the SFO continues to face human resource and logistics problems in addition to late releases of approved votes for service activities.