The Office of the Attorney General has filed an application to overturn the order permitting former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company Hanan Abdul-Wahab to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) for specialist medical treatment over concerns he may fail to return to stand trial.
According to the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) Facebook page on July 8, 2026, the AG’s office filed the application over fears the former Buffer Stock CEO has plans not to return to the country.
Part of the update reads, “The application has been necessitated by material facts and subsequent developments that came to the attention of the prosecution after the court granted the travel request. These developments, in the Attorney General’s considered view, fundamentally alter the basis upon which the court exercised its discretion.
“Facts deposed to in the affidavit in support of the application reveal that the first accused allegedly attempted to rely on an order of a differently constituted High Court in separate proceedings to access funds held in bank accounts that remain subject to valid freezing orders obtained by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO); an act which violates Section 37 of the Economic and Organised Crime Act, 2010 (Act 804)”.
It added, “The relevant financial institution declined the attempted withdrawal and notified the investigative authorities. This attempted withdrawal occurred shortly before the first accused was due to depart Ghana, raising legitimate concerns regarding compliance with existing court orders, the integrity of the ongoing criminal proceedings, and the risk that the accused may fail to return to stand trial if permitted to leave the jurisdiction.”
“It is the position of the Attorney General that these material facts, which were not before the Court when the travel order was made, may materially influence the Court’s decision regarding its order granting leave for the first accused to travel outside the jurisdiction.”
The development follows Deputy Attorney-General, Dr Justice Srem Sai, disclosing that the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, has been arrested at the Accra International Airport after allegedly trying to illegally withdraw money from his frozen Republic Bank account.
According to Dr Justice Srem Sai, Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba was arrested after an attempt to use “false means” to access funds in a frozen bank account.
Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba is currently on trial for stealing and causing financial loss to the state and had been granted permission by the High Court to travel to the United Kingdom for a few days.
Dr Justice Srem Sai disclosed that although the court had allowed him to travel to the UK, he will ask the court on Monday to cancel that permission.
Meanwhile, the counsel for former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company, Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has announced that the Accra High Court has fixed Friday, July 10, for the hearing of a habeas corpus application challenging his client’s continued detention.
The habeas corpus application filed is seeking an order directing the Director of the Bureau of National Intelligence and the Attorney-General to produce Aludiba in court and justify the legal basis for his detention.
According to Godfred Dame, the hearing date was set after the application was moved on notice, but he added that the date was too far given the circumstances.
Speaking on Eyewitness News on Monday, July 6, Dame stated, “I think Friday is a little bit too far, so we’ll seek an abridgement of that date”.
“The failure to charge him in court today, the failure to file any application whatsoever, shows that clearly, they actually had no basis at all for stopping him from travelling”.
“And the allegation that was made by the Deputy Attorney-General, while that context was clearly an effort to prevent an execution of the order, was clearly an effort to prevent the court order from being carried out,” he added.
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