Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, the deputy attorney general has said the former chief executive officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu will soon start serving her 10-year jail term in Ghana.
An Accra High Court on Tuesday sentenced the former CEO of MASLOC to 10 years in jail with hard labour.
Daniel Axim, a former chief operating officer of MASLOC has also been sentenced to five years in jail with hard labour.
The two were found guilty on 78 counts of causing financial loss to the state, stealing, conspiracy to steal, money laundering, and causing loss to public property in contravention of public procurement law.
They have been on trial since 2019.
On 24 February 2023, the court granted an application by the prosecution to conduct the trial in the absence of Attionu, after the court allowed her to go to the United States in 2021 for medical attention but she has since not returned.
Speaking to Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday (17 April), Tuah-Yeboah said the Attorney General’s Department has initiated the process to extradite the former MASLOC boss.
“The state is happy with the outcome of the trial because this case started from 2019 to 2024, almost five years after calling seven witnesses and after spending a lot of energy on this matter, we have been able to get a conviction …”
“Apart from these two sentences, there is an order directing Tamakloe to also refund the money that the state has lost. So, I will say the state is satisfied with the outcome of this particular matter,” he said.
Tuah-Yeboah added, “We have started the process and very soon definitely people will get to know where it has gotten to and the first convict Tamakloe will definitely come to Ghana to serve her jail term.”
Listen to Alfred Tuah-Yeboah in the attached audio clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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