Former Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority Agyenim Boateng Adjei has pleaded not guilty to eight fresh charges.

They comprise of four counts each of using Public office for profit and indirectly influencing the Procument process to obtain an unfair advantage in the award of Procument contract. This comes moments after prosecutors dropped the previous charge sheet which initially had seventeen (17) counts leading to a reduction in the counts to eight.

The fomer PPA boss has also been granted a 4 million Ghana cedis bail with two surities to be justified with landed property. The court has also ordered the Registrar to confirm with the relevant authorities the authenticity of the documents.

Additionally, the surities are also to deposit their Ghana cards with the registrar.

As part of the bail conditions, the accused is also ordered to handover every passport that he has to the registrar of the court. The registrar is to further examine the relevant passport and the existence of any other passport in the name of the accused.

The court also ordered copies of the bail bond to be given the Prosecution for easy access.

The presiding judge, Justice Marie-Louise Simmons before adjourning the case to May 14 directed the Prosecution to file and serve their disclosures on the accused.

The former PPA boss was dragged together with his alleged brother in-law Francis Arhin before the Criminal Division of the High court in Accra in May 2022 for Procument breaches after an exposè by Investigative Journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni in 2019.

Meanwhile, Francis Arhin the alleged brother in-law of the PPA boss has been discharged after the Prosecution led by Adelaide Kobiri-Woode withdrew the charge of using Public office for profit against him.