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Ex-MASLOC Boss, Operations Manager Jailed 15 Years

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The runaway former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu and Operations Manager, Daniel Axim, have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison for causing financial loss to the state. The two were dragged before the court in 2019 charged with a total of 78 charges of causing a total of GHc93,044,134.66 financial loos to the state. They were also charged for conspiracy to steal, stealing, money laundering while Madam Attionu was separately charged for causing loss to public property, unauthorised commitment resulting in financial obligation for government, and contravention of the Public Procurement Act. The two were found guilty of the all the 78 charges levelled against them after the court presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, a Justice of the Court of Appeal sitting as an additional High Court Judge, held that the prosecution has led sufficient evidence against the convicts who could not put up a reasonab...