Upper East Regional Chairman for the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) Anthony Namoo has said that former President John Mahama’s autobiography book has exposed him on the Airbus Scandal.
According to Mr. Namoo , it will not be out of place for one to link a description in that book to a personality captured in a UK Court’s judgement on corruption involving some government officials and individuals under the then NDC government engaging in corrupt acts.
A UK Court has sanctioned French aerospace company Airbus to pay over €3.5bn (£2.96bn) in fines globally to settle corruption charges, including almost €1bn to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as part of a record-breaking deferred prosecution agreement (DPA)
As well as the SFO’s sanction of €983.97m (£833m), the company is also to pay €2.08bn to the French regulators and €525m to the US authorities, who took part in a joint investigation.
Details of the penalties were given in a public hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice, where the judge said the SFO’s financial sanction is greater than the total of all the previous sums paid pursuant to previous DPAs and more than double the total of fines paid in respect of all criminal conduct in England and Wales in 2018.
Portions of the Court’s ruling indicated that one of the individuals involved in this scandal was a close relation to a powerful elected person at the time of the deal. The person whose identity has not been given by the court but labeled “Intermediary 5” is said to be a relation of a government official based in UK who has lost contact with his family for decades.
Coincidentally, this description is similar to what has been captured in the Book authored by Former President John Mahama entitled “My First Coup D’etat” which revealed his lost relations that was taken to the UK at a younger age but lost contact with the family.
Though , there are no other facts aside the linkage of the description to prove that the said “Intermediary 5” was related to former President Mahama, Lawyer Anthony Namoo insisted that the book has provided a lead people can rely on.
“Former President Mahama himself has written a book referring one of his brothers who was taken to the UK at a young age ,Intermediary 5 has been described and it coincides with what Mahama himself has said in his book so where you provide a lead where people have relied ,obviously it will be difficult for you not to look at it that way. But as I indicated ,the files are still emerging and once the emerge ,any injury that is suffered by him has a remedy” he told Samuel Mbura on Daybreak Upper East.
Source:A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Ghana
