The sanctioned Minister of State for President Affairs, Nathaniel McGill has denied proudly owning a overseas checking account in Ghana opposite to media report.
“I am one official of the government who does not have any foreign bank account whether in Ghana or anywhere,” the minister mentioned.
McGill, who, together with two different authorities officers, has been sanctioned by the US Treasury for public corruption, claims that he’s prepared to be audited as a method of exhibiting that he doesn’t personal any overseas account.
“I am one official of the government who does not have any foreign bank account. GAC or whoever can audit me, I don’t have any foreign account, and nor am I a signatory to the Ministry of State’s account. I don’t take government money,” mentioned McGill in audio shared with the Daily Observer by Frontpage Africa.
The Minister’s protection comes within the area of some days after GNN, which is owned by veteran Liberian Journalist Joel Cholo Brooks, reported that McGill’s personal account at United Bank for Africa (UBA) in Accra, Ghana, allegedly contained over US$4 million, has been blocked because of his sanction designation.
Brooks who has labored for a number of worldwide information retailers together with the BBC African Service famous in his story that the order to dam McGill’s account was issued to the financial institution within the United States, and to different banking establishments the place the minister deposited his cash.
McGill is being sanctioned by the US for public corruption according to the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
“He used his government position to bribe business owners, received bribes from potential investors, and accepted kickbacks for steering contracts to companies in which he has an interest,” the US Treasury Department mentioned.
“McGill has manipulated public procurement processes with a view to award multi-million greenback contracts to firms through which he has possession, together with by abusing emergency procurement processes to rig contract bids.
McGill is credibly accused of involvement in a variety of different corrupt schemes together with soliciting bribes from authorities workplace seekers and misappropriation of presidency property for his private achieve. He has used authorities funds allotted to different Liberian authorities establishments to run his personal initiatives, made off-the-books funds in money to senior authorities leaders, and arranged warlords to threaten political rivals,” the Treasury added.
The US additionally mentioned the Minister has obtained an unjustified stipend from varied Liberian authorities establishments and used his place to stop his misappropriation from being found — and that frequently distributes hundreds of {dollars} in undocumented money to different authorities officers for presidency and non-government actions.”
“McGill is being designated for being a foreign person who is a current government official who is responsible for or complicit in, or who has directly or indirectly engaged in, corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery,” the Treasury mentioned.
His sanction is pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of great human rights abuse and corruption around the globe.
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