Deputy Attorney-General, Justice Srem Sai, has objected to allegations that the Attorney-General’s office has lost evidence in the ongoing criminal case involving former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene.

These claims surfaced from the defence team representing Adu-Boahene and his co-accused at a case Management Conference held on Thursday, June 26. Adu-Boahen's legal team, under the leadership of lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea, alleged that the bank statements provided by the prosecution were incomplete, with essential pages allegedly missing.

They suggested that these omissions might contain exculpatory evidence, and accused the Attorney-General’s office of “cherry-picking” documents to support its case while withholding material that could potentially clear the accused.

In response to this, the Attorney-General’s office, in a statement shared on its official (X) yesterday, August 28, revealed that, his outfit is still in possession of the rightful evidence against the accused.

Also, Justice Srem Sai continued that all the necessary documents needed to prove the charges levelled against all the accused have been filed. The said documents include contracts, bank records, property ownership documents, INTERPOL reports, and witness testimonies.

"The Attorney-General’s office has not lost any evidence regarding the ongoing Republic v Adu-Boahene criminal trial.

As of June 18, we had filed all the documents which we intend to rely on to prove the charges against the 4 Accused Persons in the case.

The documents include contracts of sale, bank wire transfer records, bank account statements, company registration documents, property ownership records and purchase receipts, INTERPOL stolen vehicle records, investigative caution statements and charge statements of each Accused Person, records of asset non-declaration, a flow chart of money movements through a complex web of bank accounts, and testimonies of our 3 witnesses" he noted.

According to him, Adu-Boahen's legal team are in the wrong and illusory to believed government h as lost evidence in their against against their client. There is no cherry picking as all accused persons have been duly served.

"Further, court-certified copies of each of these documents have been duly served on each of the Accused Persons. So, it is not even realistic that the documents could be lost to jeopardise the prosecution of the case".

On the current status of the case, the Deputy A-G revealed that before the court went on recess, three prosecution witnesses had already testified, proof that the case is still on track and not disrupted by a lack of evidence.

" ...Before the start of the legal vacation on July 31, the first of our 3 prosecution witnesses had completed testifying and had been cross-examined by the lawyers of 3 of the 4 Accused Persons" adding that "The trial will resume in earnest in mid-October when the courts return from the legal vacation".

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