The Accra High Court has given the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) four more weeks to complete efforts to serve former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his former Chief of Cabinet, Ernest Darko Akore, with summons in the United States.
On September 29, the prosecution told the court that a team that travelled to the United States to engage the US Department of Justice over the service of the summons was yet to return to Ghana.
The prosecution therefore asked the High Court for additional time to enable it to complete the necessary processes, a request the court granted.
On August 27, 2026, during the previous hearing the case was adjourned to September 29, 2026, to allow the prosecution time to serve Ofori-Atta and Akore with the necessary processes in the United States.
Meanwhile, the High Court has since adjourned the case, involving Ofori-Atta and seven others, to October 29, 2026.
It will be recalled that Ofori-Atta is facing 28 counts of corruption and corruption-related offences arising from investigations into revenue assurance contracts between the Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
Ken Ofori-Atta is standing trial alongside former GRA Commissioners-General Emmanuel Kofi Nti and Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah; former Customs Commissioner Isaac Crentsil; former Customs Commissioner Kwadwo Damoah; SML Chief Executive Officer Evans Adusei; and former Chief of Cabinet to Mr Ofori-Atta, Ernest Darko Akore.
Earlier, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has said former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is still a fugitive from justice in Ghana.
According to the OSP, there is a valid warrant by the High Court for the arrest of Ken Ofori-Atta.
The OSP statement follows a US Immigration Judge David Gardey ruling that the OSP failed to present credible evidence linking Ken Ofori-Atta to any criminal wrongdoing.
Judge Gardey disclosed that the OSP submitted a 200-page affidavit which included more than 70 criminal counts against Mr Ofori-Atta, but found the evidence presented did not persuasively demonstrate that he committed wrongdoing as Finance Minister.
The US immigration judge made this known, explaining his decision to approve Mr Ofori-Atta’s permanent residency application.
According to the US Immigration Judge said, the OSP’s affidavit was “full of conclusory allegations” and did not provide “credible or reliable facts” showing that the former minister engaged in criminal conduct.
Reports suggest the judge’s comments were contained in his June 15, 2026 ruling, providing the court’s reasoning for why it found Ghana’s embattled Ken Ofori-Atta is deserving of immigration relief despite the corruption-related charges brought against him in Ghana.
The Judge is quoted as having said, “The lack of any persuasive evidence indicating any kind of criminal wrongdoing or criminal conspiracy involving the respondent in the OSP’s affidavit is powerful evidence”.
The Judge disclosed that while the allegations from Ghana described serious claims of corruption, the OSP had not provided sufficient evidence to support those claims.
Judge Gardey further revealed that Ofori-Atta had testified credibly and denied receiving anything of value from companies or individuals involved in the investigations, or benefiting personally from decisions he made while serving as a government official.
Reacting to the development, the OSP in a Public notice stressed that the credibility or otherwise of the criminal charges against Mr Ofori-Atta is a matter for determination by the courts in Ghana, which have jurisdiction to determine his guilt or innocence.
They added that such matters are not determined by an immigration court in the United States.
The OSP also disclosed once again that they are not involved in Ken Ofori-Atta’s immigration hearings in the United States.
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