An Accra high court has ordered the state to defreeze all the Bank accounts of the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority(NHIA), Sylvester Mensah.
The order comes after the Financial and Intelligence Centre moved for an ex-parte application to the Fast Track High Court (Financial Division) to get the former NHIA Boss’ accounts frozen.
Sylvester’s accounts were frozen when the Bureau of National Investigations(BNI) was investigating him over speculations of financial malfeasance at the authority.
The four accounts are at Access bank, United Bank for Africa(UBA), Energy Bank and Ecobank.
Mr. Mensah was arrested and detained at the BNI on New Year’s Day after he reported himself in response to an invitation by the security outfit and later released after some 11 hours in custody.
He was allegedly implicated in the scandal after some service providers who were being interrogated by the BNI fingered him during investigations.
