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Ex-Goldman Sachs banker faces up to 30 years after US conviction over $1m in bribes to Ghanaian officials

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Ex-Goldman Sachs banker faces up to 30 years after US conviction over $1m in bribes to Ghanaian officials

A former Goldman Sachs investment banker, Asante Kwaku Berko, has been convicted by a federal jury in the United States for paying more than $1 million in bribes to Ghanaian government officials in connection with the development of a power plant in Ghana.

Santiago/Getty Images United States Federal Bureau of InvestigationThe scheme began in December 2014 when Berko, then an Executive Director in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs Group Goldman Sachs.

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