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