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Defunct Beige Bank: CEO charged with stealing GHS 2.1bn

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Defunct Beige Bank: CEO charged with stealing GHS 2.1bn

Erstwhile Chief Executive Officer of now defunct Beige Bank, Michael Nyinaku, has been accused of stealing and laundering monies worth GHS 2.1bn that belonged to customers of the bank by the criminal High Court.

Mr Nyinaku was charged by the state with forty-four counts of stealing, fraudulent breach of trust and money laundering.

The Charge Sheet filed in the Court by the Attorney General, said the acts were discovered following investigations into the bank after its licensed was revoked and placed under receivership by the Bank of Ghana.

The facts of the case as filed by the Attorney General’s department are that, the accused person;

“On 1st August 2018, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) revoked the banking licence of Beige Bank and placed the Bank in receivership. A review of the financial and other records of the Bank conducted by the Receiver and his team identified a number of suspicious and unusual transactions which were subsequently reported to the law enforcement agencies for investigations.

“Investigations revealed that between 2015 and 2O18, the accused person as CEO of the bank used various means to transfer huge sums of money to companies related to him and for his personal benefit.

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“The funds transferred were depositors’ funds lodged with Beige Bank. Between 2017 and 2018, the accused person caused the transfer of 10,071 fixed deposit accounts held with Beige Bank in which various customers placed a total of GH¢448,636,210.21 to Beige Capital Asset Management Limited (BCAM), without the knowledge and consent of these customers”.

The AG’s facts go on to reveal that “BCAM is a limited liability company wholly owned by “The Beige Group Limited” (Beige Group), an entity which in turn is wholly owned by the accused.

“Investigations also revealed that the accused person, between the year 2017 and 2018, caused the transfer of 35 fixed deposit investments of 2 customers of Beige Bank, totaling GH¢ 141,042,348.92 to the Beige Group, a company wholly owned by the accused and is the majority shareholder of Beige Bank.

“Investigations further revealed that, sometime in March 2018, the accused person caused a fictitious second account to be opened in the name of First Africa Savings and Loans (FASL), an existing account holder with Beige Bank, without the knowledge of the Board and management of FASL.

“The accused person then caused the transfer of the sum of GH¢ 20 million from the accounts of various Beige Bank customers into the bank account of BCAM held with Beige Bank.

“The GH¢320 million was subsequently transferred from the BCAM account held with Beige Bank into the fictitious FASL account that had been opened in Beige Bank’s books on the instructions of the accused.

“Between March 2018 and August 2018, GH¢21,123,270.96 out of the GH¢ 20 million was transferred from the fictitious FASL bank account to some two (2) individuals and ten (10) companies, nine (9) of which are related to the accused person, on the instructions of the accused person.

“Again, between 2015 and 2017, the accused person, through the use of payment vouchers, caused the sum of GH¢1,465,000.00 of depositors’ funds lodged with Beige Bank to be paid to himself and other persons.

“These transactions were recorded in a general ledger account of the bank descried as Directors Account. Investigations also revealed that the accused person, through the use of Payment vouchers, e-mails and memos, caused a total amount of GH¢20,599,052.58 of depositors” funds lodged with Beige Bank to be transferred to a number of companies and individuals for his benefit.

“These transactions were recorded in a general ledger account of the bank described as Shareholders Account. Additionally, between 2Ol6 and 2017, the accused person, through the use of payment vouchers, caused a total amount of GH¢141,742,087.70 of depositors’ funds lodged with Beige Bank to be transferred to a number of companies and individuals for his benefit.

“These transactions were recorded in a general ledger account of the bank described as Prepayment: Project Works Account. Between 2017 and 2018 the accused person, through the use of Payment vouchers, e-mails and memos, further caused the sum of GH¢118,076,813.09 of depositors funds lodged with Beige Bank to be transferred to a number of companies and individuals for his benefit.

“These transactions were also recorded in a general ledger account of the bank described as the Beige Group Account. Investigations have established that the money dishonestly appropriated by the accused from Beige Bank remained unpaid as at 1st August 2018 when the Bank’s licence was revoked by Bank of Ghana”.

 

 

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