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UK’s FCA urged to reject Agyapa Royalties listing if corruption concerns are not addressed

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Anti-graft institution, Transparency International, has urged the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to thoroughly review Ghana’s application to list Agyapa Royalties Limited on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

In addition to calls for a thorough review of the application, Transparency International is advocating for a rejection of the listing of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) on London’s bourse, if corruption concerns surrounding the SPV are not sufficiently addressed.

Financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch have also been urged by Transparency International to withdraw their engagements in the deal.

Agyapa Royalties Limited is a UK Jersey-based company that would own almost 76 per cent of the royalties generated from 16 large gold mines in Ghana under a scheme that has caused controversy and political fallout in Ghana.

49 per cent of shares in Agyapa Royalties are to be sold through a listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Following the controversies over the Agyapa deal, the Special Prosecutor at the time, Martin Amidu raised red flags over the risks of money laundering in the deal and possible bid-rigging in the contracting of advisors.

Mr Amidu shared his report publicly in November which gave further impetus to the advocacy for a review of the Agyapa Royalties deal.

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Transparency International in a submission to the Financial Conduct Authority and financial institutions involved in the deal, detailed concerns shared by a coalition of almost 30 Ghanaian and international civil society organisations that the deal smacks of corruption.

Linda Ofori-Kwafo, Executive Director of Ghana Integrity Initiative, the Ghana chapter of Transparency International said, “There are serious red flags in how this deal was set up. Concerns have been raised by civil society actors around inadequate stakeholder consultation, transparency and the valuation of the deal. Other concerns bother on the way transaction advisors became involved in the process and a lack of public oversight over the company at the heart of the deal,” she said.

Adding, “It is crucial for Ghana that the western financial institutions and regulators involved in this deal take these concerns seriously. They must not facilitate schemes that may end up plundering Ghana’s mineral resources in the name of investment.”

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