A Kwabenya Circuit Court in Accra has remanded six people accused of links to a shipment of nearly four tonnes of suspected cocaine that left Tema Port for France, denying them bail when they appeared on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
The accused are Francis Narh Amanor, Frank Adu-Boahen, Togbe Agbeti, Andrews Tetteh Amponsah, Daniel Laryea and Helena Akua Denkyi.
Four of them work with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and are accused of mishandling the Customs scanning process that let the shipment through.
According to the charge sheet, four 40-foot containers, SELU4549480, FFAU2242304, MSDU5642699 and SELU4809801, were scanned before leaving Ghana. The scan images were flagged as abnormal, but the containers were cleared and exported anyway. French authorities later intercepted them with roughly 3.9 tonnes of suspected narcotics.
The prosecution alleges that Frank Adu-Boahen, one of the GRA officials, handed his login credentials to other accused persons so they could carry out the scan-image analysis he was meant to do himself, and that the abnormalities spotted in the images were never followed up with further checks before the containers were released.
Investigators say Adu-Boahen owned the four containers and was arrested at a hideout in Community 19, Tema, on 16 September. He reportedly admitted during questioning to owning the containers and loading them at a warehouse in Community 12, Tema, alongside Amanor, the first accused.
Amanor, a freight forwarder and managing director of Fresna Commodities Ltd, was arrested on 15 September. Investigators traced the shipment through the ICUMS system to Fresna as the exporter, using a phone number also linked to F&F Logistics, the freight forwarder. Amanor reportedly told investigators he owned F&F Logistics, handled the export, and was told the containers held pet flakes or plastic scraps. He named Adu-Boahen as the shipment’s owner.
The six face three charges: conspiracy to export narcotic drugs, exporting narcotic drugs without a licence, and, for the four GRA officials, abetting the exportation.
The case has been adjourned to 24 September, while investigators continue examining who reviewed the scan images, what was found, what action was taken, and why the containers were still allowed to leave the country.
