The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has identified five persons of interest in the local leg of the bribery case involving former Goldman Sachs banker and Tema Oil Refinery Managing Director, Asante Kwaku Berko.
The individuals listed are former Power Minister, Kwabena Donkor; Francis Walkson Kwasi Dzafa, former Technical Adviser to the Minister of Power; Solomon Adjetey Sowah, a Deputy Director; Lyndon Nii Mettle, Director of Tricorp Group Limited; and Baffour Ankomah Brobbey, an employee of Tricorp Group Limited.
Kissi Agyebeng, however, emphasised that being named as a person of interest does not mean any of the five is a suspect or has been found guilty of wrongdoing. The disclosure comes after Berko was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 2026, for his role in a scheme involving over US$1 million in bribes to Ghanaian officials to secure a power plant deal involving Turkish firm Aksa Enerji and the Government of Ghana.
US prosecutors proved that Berko and his accomplices negotiated and paid bribes to influence Ghanaian officials and obtain approvals for the project. The prosecutors said the plot ran between 2014 and 2015, at a time Ghana was battling severe power cuts. Per evidence adduced in the US trial, Berko and his associates discussed paying US$1 million to the then Minister of Power, who was responsible for crucial approvals needed to push the project forward.
The court documents also cited payments involving other officials and persons linked to the Ministry of Power, as well as payments connected to a trip by Ghanaian officials to Turkey to inspect equipment for the project. The identities of some Ghanaian officials mentioned in the US proceedings were not made public in the court documents, which referred to them only as “Ghana Official 1” and “Ghana Official 2.”
The OSP said its role did not end with supporting US investigators. Kissi Agyebeng noted that the office has sustained investigations into the Ghanaian angle and will proceed based on evidence gathered from its own probe.
