The High Court has dismissed a motion filed by the accused persons in the ongoing NPA–UPPF corruption case seeking to strike out the charges against them, allowing the substantive trial to continue.
The case involves former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mustapha Abdul-Hamid; former Unified Petroleum Pricing Fund (UPPF) Coordinator, Jacob Kwamina Amuah; NPA staff member Wendy Newman; Bright Bediako-Mensah; Kwaku Aboagye Acquaah; and three companies — Propnest Limited, Kel Logistics Limited and Kings Energy Limited.
The accused persons had asked the Court to strike out the charges against them. The High Court has dismissed the application as without merit.
The Republic has brought 54 charges against the accused persons, including corruption and corruption-related offences, extortion, money laundering and conspiracy to commit a crime.
The Republic’s case is that between 2022 and December 2024, approximately GH¢291.57 million and US$332,407 was unlawfully obtained through a scheme involving officials of the NPA.
The Republic’s case further is that portions of the funds were subsequently channelled through companies linked to some of the accused persons and used in transactions involving, among other things, land, buildings, trucks and fuel stations.
