The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has filed 15 criminal charges against Charles Bissue, former Secretary of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), and Andy Thomas Owusu, his alleged accomplice, over corruption and abuse of public office in a mining license scandal involving GHC35,000.
The charges, filed at the High Court (Criminal Division) in Accra on April 28, allege that between January and February 2019, Mr.
Bissue, while serving as IMCIM Secretary, corruptly accepted bribes totaling GHC35,000 from one Benjamin Adjapong, directly and through Owusu, to fast-track the renewal of an expired mining license for ORR Resources Enterprise without proper documentation.
Mr.
