U.S. bank queried payments for Ghana ambassador’s residence renovated by company owned by embassy’s IT officer

U.S. bank queried payments for Ghana ambassador’s residence renovated by company owned by embassy’s IT officer

A special forensic audit of Ghana’s Embassy in the United States has uncovered a conflict-of-interest situation in which a company owned by the embassy’s IT officer, Fred Kwarteng, was awarded a contract of nearly $296,000 to renovate the ambassador’s residence.

By David Apinga