Attorney General Dr.

Dominic Ayine has blown the lid off what he describes as a "nationwide criminal enterprise" within Ghana's National Service Scheme (NSS), implicating top officials in a long-running payroll fraud scheme.

In a media briefing on Friday on progress made by the ORAL team, Ayine said investigations have exposed a staggering 81,885 ghost names on the NSS payroll-fake identities used to divert public funds meant for service personnel into the pockets of administrators and their cronies. "This wasn't a one-off.

It was institutionalised fraud," Dr.