OSP Files Fresh Charges against Former PPA Boss Adjenim Boateng Adjei

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has filed fresh criminal charges against former Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenim Boateng Adjei. Mr. Boateng Adjei, has been charged with eight counts of using public office for profit and indirectly influencing procurement processes to gain an unfair advantage in the award of procurement contracts.

The charge sheet was filed by the Special Prosecutor at the Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra on Wednesday April 17.

The former PPP boss Adjenim Boateng Adjei is currently charged with 17 counts after he is alleged to have established a company named Talent Discovery Limited (TDL) as a front to fraudulently secure public contracts.

The new charges, are made up of eight counts of using public office for profit and nine counts of directly and indirectly influencing the procurement process to obtain an unfair advantage in the award of a procurement contract. His brother-in-law, Francis Kwaku Arhin was alleged to be the CEO of TDL and holding a minority stake, was also charged with one count of using public office for profit.

Mr Adjei was the CEO of PPA from March 2017 to August 2019. He was dismissed from office by President Akufo-Addo upon the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) after he was captured in a video documentary titled “Contract for Sale”.