There are reports in some UK newspapers that a popular British actor is being sought for questioning in Ghana in connection with the Airbus bribery scandal. According to the Daily Mail and The Sun, Philip Middlemiss, 55, is wanted by the Ghana Police for his role in the £5 million Airbus bribery scandal. He is […]
The Jakarta Corruption Court has sentenced Emirsyah Satar to eight years in prison after finding the former President Director of Garuda Indonesia guilty of accepting Rp 49.3 billion (US$3.4 million) in bribes and laundering Rp 87.5 billion related to aircraft procurement. This is according to the Jakarta Post. The court has also fined Emirsyah Rp […]
Relatives of the former president are implicated in an investigation into the corruption scandal that has shaken European aeronautics giant Airbus. The revelations come at a bad time for John Dramani Mahama, who is taking a fresh run at the presidency this year. One could hardly have imagined a more unlikely setting for a revelation […]
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has sent out an invitation to four people to make themselves available to assist in the ongoing investigation into an alleged act of corruption in the purchase of three aircraft from Airbus SE for Ghana. According to the Special Prosecutor, upon completion of the preliminary investigations, his office will require […]
Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama, conveniently sidestepped answering questions on the Airbus scandal when a group of fishermen, sympathetic to the NDC, paid him a visit at his private residence in Accra. The fishermen had sought clarification and his version of the issues with respect to the Airbus saga which […]
Former Coronation Street star Philip Middlemiss has been declared bankrupt, the M.E.N. can reveal. The actor was judged to be insolvent after Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [HMRC] launched a bankruptcy petition against him because of unpaid taxes. Mr Middlemiss, who played bookie Des Barnes in the soap for eight years, told the M.E.N. he […]
The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has expressed concern about the Airbus bribery scandal as far as the purchase of airplanes for the Ghana Armed Forces is concerned. “We call on the security agencies to conduct serious investigations” into the matter, the Council said in a communiqué issued after deliberations at the 2020 Conference […]
Dear Mr. President, Lots of people around the world say that you are such an effective and working president. I do not begrudge them at all. I have also worked with you for close to a decade of my professional life and I must confess you are arguably the best president Ghana has ever produced. […]
A letter laying credence to the direct involvement of former President John Dramani Mahama in negotiations for the purchase of Aircrafts from Airbus has gone viral in Social Media. The letter, intercepted by BestNewsGH.com and dated 26th April 2012 and signed by then Vice President John Dramani Mahama, read in part that “recent information and […]
The Office of the Special Prosecutor has noted that there is reasonable suspicion of corruption in the Airbus scandal. In a press release from the Office commenting on the issue for the first time since the referral from the President, the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu stated that offences such as bribery of public officials and […]
The former chief of Sri Lanka’s national carrier was arrested Thursday (Feb 6) over allegations he received bribes for a multi-billion-dollar Airbus aircraft deal, as the fallout from corruption probes into the aviation giant grew. The country’s president ordered an investigation into the purchase after court documents mentioned SriLankan Airlines in corruption probes into Airbus. […]
Fallout from the Airbus bribery scandal reverberated around the world as the head of one of its top buyers temporarily stood down and investigations were launched in countries aggrieved at being dragged into the increasingly political dispute. The European planemaker is bracing for a rocky period with airlines and foreign governments, some of which have […]
