Court Gives OSP Weeks to Serve Ken Ofori-Atta

Court in Accra has granted the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) an extension of four weeks to finalize the process of serving summons to former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his former Chief of Cabinet, Ernest Darko Akore, currently residing in the United States.

As a result, the case involving Ofori-Atta and seven others has been postponed until October 29, 2026.

During the court session on September 29, the prosecution informed the judges that their team, which had traveled to the US to coordinate with the Department of Justice regarding the summons, has not yet returned to Ghana.

The prosecution requested additional time to complete the required procedures, and the court approved this request.

Ofori-Atta is facing 28 charges related to corruption and corruption-related offenses stemming from the OSP’s investigation into the revenue assurance agreements between Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
The other accused persons are former GRA Commissioners-General Emmanuel Kofi Nti and Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah; former Commissioners of the Customs Division Isaac Crentsil and Kwadwo Damoah; Ernest Darko Akore; SML Chief Executive Officer Evans Adusei; and SML.

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The OSP alleges that the accused persons were involved in corruption and corruption-related offences connected to the SML-GRA revenue assurance arrangements, which allegedly resulted in financial losses of more than GH¢1.4 billion.

Those accused persons who have been served with summons and have appeared before the court have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

At the previous hearing on August 27, 2026, the case was adjourned to September 29, 2026, to allow the prosecution time to serve Ofori-Atta and Akore with the necessary processes in the United States.

The case is part of a wider set of prosecutions by the OSP that had been affected by legal challenges to the Office’s prosecutorial powers.

Proceedings in a number of OSP cases had been stalled since April 2026 following a High Court ruling that questioned the Office’s authority to prosecute independently of the Attorney-General.

The Supreme Court subsequently, in a unanimous decision, upheld the constitutional validity of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959)

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