Blank passports, visa stickers found in office of Ghana Embassy IT officer accused of concealing digital records

Auditors who conducted a forensic audit at Ghana’s Embassy in Washington, DC, uncovered blank biometric passport booklets, active passport materials and visa stickers in the office of an IT officer, alongside signs suggesting that digital records connected to his work may have been removed from official computers before the audit.

When it was corrected, some passport booklets whose serial numbers had been duplicated could no longer be used and those may still have been in Mr Kwarteng’s office during the audit.

The possession of blank passport booklets and visa stickers became more significant because Mr Kwarteng also provided visa and passport application support services through a private company whose website he directed traffic to from the official website of Ghana’s Embassy in Washington, D.