Former president of Ghana John Mahama cleared in Airbus corruption scandal

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00:00And former Ghanaian President John Muhammad's been cleared of any corruption allegations by the special prosecutor

00:06His brother had been accused of accepting bribes on behalf of the head of state from aerospace giant Airbus

00:13Allegations that arose amidst confessions from Airbus officials appearing in US and UK courts justice Baidu talks us through

00:22Ghana special prosecutor launched an inquiry into these

00:27investigations in

00:282020 after it came out of

00:31UK US and

00:33French

00:34investigations into the issue of

00:37European aircraft maker Airbus paying bribes of up to 5 million euros to a network of

00:46persons that were accused of

00:48brokering these deals on behalf of the Ghanaian government

00:52It was part of the scandal that broke in 23 African countries including Ghana

00:58While the accepted facts in the two foreign jurisdictions are that the employees of Airbus

01:05Designed the payments to the intermediaries as bribes

01:08Intended to court favor with Ghanaian public officials, especially as president John Rahmani Mahama

01:17On the other hand

01:19The intermediaries appeared to expect and

01:22Received the payments as their legitimate expectation

01:26Under an arrangement of success based commissions for the sale of the military transport aircraft to the government of Ghana

01:33Mr. Mahama will be coming up against the current vice president. Dr

01:38Mahmood Bamiya in a very close elections that several polls have suggested

01:44Mr. Mahama has a high chance of winning

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