Accra: Ghanaian broadcaster based in the UK, Austine Woode, has claimed that sources at Exim Bank say Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, visited the institution seeking a meeting to arrange payment in an alleged fraud and deceit case. In a post on his X page on June 3, 2026, the broadcaster noted that Exim Bank refused the meeting and directed Chairman Wontumi to instead engage the Attorney General.
According to Ghana Web, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Chairman Wontumi, has been charged at the High Court in Accra. A charge sheet filed by the Deputy Attorney-General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, alleges that Wontumi and one Thomas Antwi-Boasiako, a Director of Wontumi Farms Limited, used false pretences to obtain GHS14,302,000.00 from the Ghana Export-Import Bank.
He is also accused of uttering a forged document with the intent to defraud Exim Bank officials by allegedly using a forged receipt to obtain GHS4,000,000.00 from the bank. Additionally, he is said to have taken part of the GHS14,302,000.00 from Wontumi Farms Limited, funds the prosecution alleges were acquired through fraud.
The prosecution further alleges that all three accused persons, in the course of the transaction with Ghana Exim Bank, intentionally caused the bank to lose over GHS30,000,000.00. However, Chairman Wontumi, who appeared before the court presided over by Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Baasit, pleaded not guilty to four counts of defrauding by false pretence, forgery, money laundering, and intentionally causing financial loss of over GHS30 million to a public body.