Lawyer for Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML), Cephas Boyuo, has refuted allegations through the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) suggesting that former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has an hobby within the firm.

Boyuo described the OSP’s claims as “unfaithful and deceptive,” insisting that SML is independently owned and has no political ties.

According to him, it might be illogical to signify that Ofori-Atta has an hobby within the firm when, all the way through his tenure as Finance Minister, he allegedly denied SML tax exemptions on imported apparatus.

“Every apparatus that SML introduced in, Ken Ofori-Atta refused to provide SML exemption. SML paid for the entirety. So if he had an hobby, why did he no longer simply permit them to herald the pieces freely?” Boyuo wondered.

He emphasized that SML is absolutely owned through its earnings, Evans Adusei, and no longer related to any political determine.

“It is unfaithful that Ken Ofori-Atta has an hobby in SML. It’s just for Evans Adusei,” he stressed out, including that the OSP must no longer depend on “insinuations and assumptions” in its investigations.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor is investigating SML over a investment assurance contract it signed with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

The OSP’s document alleged procurement irregularities and wondered bills made to SML for products and services within the downstream petroleum guidance.

The probe has sparked fashionable public hobby, specifically after the OSP claimed that over GH¢125 million might be recovered from the firm.

SML, then again, has rejected the claims, describing them as unfounded and destructive to its popularity.

Boyuo additionally criticised the OSP for what he described as a development of speculative conclusions, urging the anti-corruption company to depend on info and proof.

“For a major investigative organisation just like the OSP, you don’t paintings with insinuations. You don’t say ‘it is going to seem as though’ or ‘it seems like.’ Investigations should be according to proof,” he added.

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