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Former Chief Executive Officer and Director of U.T Bank, Mr. P.K Amoabeng hid GHC 5m loan payment from UT Board – Report

Former Chief Executive Officer and Director of U.T Bank, Mr. P.K Amoabeng
An investigative report into the operations of now-defunct UT  and Capital Banks has revealed that some payments were made to former Chief Executive Officer and Director of U.T Bank, Mr. P.K Amoabeng from a loan defaulting entity, Kofi Jobs Limited.
The loans which amounted to GHC 5m were never disclosed to the Board of the U.T Bank.
The report also revealed that there was also a significant amount of inter-group lending involving other subsidiaries of the holding company, UT Holdings,  while connected party loans were made to some companies as listed below:
  • Ibrahim Mahama’s Related Companies, amounting to GHC 261.4 m and US $ 6.4 m
  • Quincy Sintim’s Related Companies, amounting to GHC 84.1 m
  • Beige Group’s Related Companies, amounting to GHC 10.9m
“The bank sought a waiver of the Ibrahim  Mahama related companies’ single obligor violations by the Bank, yet undertook a pass through US $6.4 million transactions by giving Beige Capital Savings and Loans a US $5 million placement as guarantee for Beige to extend a US$5 million loan to Hodman Brothers,” the report said.
“Placing foreign currency with a savings and loans company is a breach of the Banking Law. Likewise, the extension of a United States Dollar loan facility by a savings and loans company was in breach of the banking regulations,” the report added.
Capital Bank board squandered BoG cash 
In the case of Capital Bank, it was alleged that the bank’s then-Board Chair, Dr. Mensa Otabil was party to the misuse of liquidity support given the bank by the Bank of Ghana (BoG), according to an investigative report sighted by Citi News.
The report cites an emergency board and Executive Committee meeting on October 13, 2015, over the use of GHc 610 million liquidity support to the bank which was struggling at the time.
The GCB in 2017, took over the two banks under a purchase agreement approved by the Bank of Ghana.
GCB Bank has since absorbed about four hundred workers.
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By: Marian Ansah/citinewsroom.com/Ghana

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