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The Ghana banking crisis was a severe banking crisis that affected Ghana between August 2017 and January 2020. The Bank of Ghana (BoG) allowed several indigenous banks to be taken over by private companies between August 2017 and January 2019 after Nana Akufo-Addo was elected president in December 2016.
Cybercrime in Ghana can be traced back to the "419 schemes" in Nigeria, also known as "advance-fee scams" prior to the internet. [3] These scams were a form of credit card fraud whereby the perpetrator would offer a monetary incentive, usually in the form of an international money transfer, in exchange for several down payments from the victim.
John Ackah Blay-Miezah (born John Kolorah Blay, 1941–1992) was a Ghanaian con artist.He was a pioneer of advance-fee fraud.He claimed to be worth $47 billion. From the 1960s to 1980s, he is said to have swindled over $200m from victims in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Since 2017, Ghana's score on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index has improved slightly from its low point that year, a score of 40 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). Ghana's score rose to 43 by 2020 and remained there until 2024, when it dropped to 42.
In October 2002, he pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud, bank fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury. [59] Ferdinand Ward, financial swindler in the late 1800s; Dina Wein Reis pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in May 2011, having duped corporations out of tens of millions of dollars. [60]
2015 Ghana Judiciary scandal; Corruption in Ghana; References This page was last edited on 8 September 2023, at 16:26 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
This articles lists anti corruption advocacy groups and agencies in Ghana. Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) [1] IMANI Ghana; Transparency International; Child's Right International; Occupy Ghana; Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition; Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability-ASEPA. Anti ...
Kweku Adoboli was born on 21 May 1980 in Tema, Ghana, to John Adoboli, a senior United Nations official. [2] [3] He spent his early years in Israel, Syria and Iraq, [4] before moving to the United Kingdom in 1991. [5]