Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has filed an application at the High Court seeking to unfreeze his bank accounts.
It will be recalled, the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) froze the bank accounts of Chairman Wontumi following the prosecution into his engagement in illegal mining.
Appiah-Kubi, a former Member of Parliament for Asante Akim North and lawyer for Wontumi, stated, “Today, we are going to move an application to defreeze [the accounts].”
The FIC, acting in accordance with Section 56(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020. Froze the accounts, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (a.k.a. Chairman Wontumi), Akonta Mining, Hallmark Civil Engineering Limited
“In accordance with Section 56(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044), you are hereby directed to immediately freeze all accounts in relation to and in association with the above-named subjects pending further directives,” parts of a letter from the FIC stated.
Also, Paul Yandoh, the Ashanti Regional Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), has made a shocking claim against the John Mahama-led government.
According to Paul Yandoh, the government has frozen the Mobile Money account of the party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi.
He claimed the move is an attempt to frustrate Chairman Wontumi, who is facing multiple charges related to illegal mining activities.
He further highlighted that what Wontumi is going through is more than what Job went through in the Bible.
Speaking on Wontumi TV on Friday, October 17, 2025, Paul Yandoh lamented, “… Do you know that Chairman Wontumi’s Mobile Money wallet has been frozen? He cannot send nor receive money.
What Wontumi is going through is more than what Job went through in the Bible. This must be condemned by Ghanaians”.
Meanwhile, Chairman Wontumi has won a defamation suit at the Supreme Court.
Wontumi won the case against Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, the former Minister of Trade and Industry and now Ghana’s Special Envoy for Reparations.
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah sued Wontumi in 2022 at the High Court in Kumasi, seeking $10 million for allegedly defaming him.
According to Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Wontumi and his media house defamed him by calling him a thief ahead of the 2020 general elections.
However, the Kumasi High Court reportedly threw out the case, citing it had no merit, with Ekwow Spio-Garbrah asked to pay GH¢150,000 as costs.
Reports suggest the Supreme Court heard the appeal on November 12, 2025, and in a unanimous decision, dismissed the appeal filed by Ekwow Spio-Garbrah.
The Law Platform in a post revealed that the Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, chaired the five-member panel of the Supreme Court made up of Justice Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Justice Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, Justice Ernest Gaewu, and Justice Henry Anthony Kwofie.
Watch the video below:
The Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, accompanied by his legal counsel, Lawyer Andy Appiah Kubi, has arrived in the Accra High court to file a request for the unfreezing of his bank accounts. pic.twitter.com/xxewvqXRbt
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