A former Director-General of the NCA, William Tetteh Tevie, and a former board chair of the NCA, Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie have been jailed 11 years for their involvement in a $ 4 million NCA scandal.
Also, a former Deputy National Security Coordinator Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman- the third defendant in the suit was sentenced to five years imprisonment.
Thereby summing the 3 former appointees under the NDC administration jail term to 16 for their roles in the “clandestine” purchase of cybersecurity equipment worth over $4 million.
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Baffoe – Bonnie received more years because the court held that he personally benefited from the deal to a tune of $200,000
The court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, also ordered the State to seize assets of the convicts to the tune of $3 million since the state has only recovered $1 million of the amount.
The three were found guilty of indulging in acts that led the State to lose the amount in a deal purchase of a cyber security surveillance equipment, known as the Pegasus machine, for the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), which was sponsored by the NCA.
