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EVIDENCE: How Ghana’s Washington Embassy staff shared money extorted from visa and passport applicants
In June 2021, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, ed the Ghana Embassy in Washington, DC, and ordered the closure of the welfare account used to distribute proceeds from illicit funds.
On September 4, 2020, another Citibank staff member, Jay Varkey, sent an email to Janet Maku Koranteng, querying her about payments into the Ghana Embassy Welfare Account.
Citibank staff queries Embassy officials over suspicious account Details of the operations contained in the appendix of the Auditor-General’s report show what appeared to have been a grand scheme to “create, loot and share,” with the active participation of senior embassy officials.
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