Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Akwasi Osei Adjei, has been acquitted and discharged of all charges including causing financial loss to the State in a case concerning the importation of rice from India into the country.
The High Court also acquitted Daniel Gyimah, the former managing director of the National Investment Bank, for the same charges.
The two were accused of importing some 300,000 bags of rice from India between April 2008 and February 2009, but the prosecution argued 2,997 of those bags of rice were diverted, leading to a financial loss of some GH¢1.5 billion to the State.
The former minister was earlier acquitted of six of the eight charges but still had to stand trial for two charges including Conspiracy to Contravene the Public Procurement Act and Contravention of the Public Procurement Act.
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