A prosecution witness in the GHC49 million National Signals Bureau (NSB) trial told the Accra High Court on Thursday that funds traced to BNC Communications Bureau Limited transactions amounting to GHC7.2 million were reflected in a Fidelity Bank account described as the National Security “Coordinator’s Account,” a disclosure that drew pointed questioning during cross-examination.
Mildred Donkor, formerly listed as the third accused before the Attorney-General withdrew charges against her in October 2025 to secure her cooperation as a state witness, made the disclosure at Criminal Court 3 in Special Court 1 on May 14. She appeared as a former director of Advantage Solutions Limited (ASL), one of the companies central to the prosecution’s case. Defence counsel Samuel Atta Akyea led the cross-examination.
Donkor’s testimony covered a series of email instructions, bank transfers and SWIFT messages linking payments to ISC Holdings International Security Consultants Ltd, an Israeli firm contracted to supply a cyber defence system to National Security. She confirmed sending multiple email instructions to Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) instructing transfers from BNC Communications Bureau Limited accounts, and acknowledged that the court exhibits already tendered represented only a portion of her total communications with the bank.
The court admitted a contested February 5, 2020 email into evidence after the presiding judge ruled it relevant to the payment trail under examination. Donkor confirmed that ISC Holdings was the beneficiary of a US$150,000 transfer captured in Exhibit 19, and that SWIFT records in Exhibit 20 documented payments for the procurement of a cyber defence system under Invoice NSC006.
On a larger US$1,000,750 transaction valued at approximately GHC9.53 million, Donkor said she could not independently verify the exchange rate applied, explaining that the bank carried out the conversion. She confirmed that a GHC7.25 million transfer from BNC Communications Bureau Limited accounts to the first accused was reflected in bank records, with subsequent entries showing GHC7.2 million movements appearing in the Fidelity Bank account described as the National Security Coordinator’s Account.
Justice Francis Achibonga cautioned that the court would draw conclusions on the evidence only at the close of the prosecution’s full case, signalling that the bench would reserve judgment on the weight of individual disclosures until that stage.
The case against former NSB Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng and their company Advantage Solutions Limited centres on allegations of stealing, money laundering, wilfully causing financial loss to the state and related offences. The prosecution maintains that GHC49 million in public funds meant for cybersecurity procurement was diverted through a web of private companies.
The hearing has been adjourned to Wednesday, May 20, at 10:30am, with further sittings scheduled between May 25 and May 28, 2026 at the Accra High Court.
