…in Shata-Wale’s Lamborghini Cover-up
By David Tamakloe/Stanley Asor
The trail of a murdered man’s Lamborghini, winding from the United States via Canada to Music Star , Shata-Wale, has exposed a web of asset laundering linking the controversial former Director General of the National Signal Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, a convicted fraudster, and a dancehall icon.
New evidence from the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) inquiry into the yellow Urus seized from musician Charles Nii Armah Mensah, known as Shatta Wale, suggests a carefully choreographed series of deceptions designed to obstruct justice and shield the vehicle’s true provenance from both local investigators and the FBI.
At the heart of the scandal is Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director-General of Ghana’s National Signals Bureau (NSB). Investigations now reveal that the luxury SUV originally finished in matte grey was violently stolen in the US during a carjacking that left its owner dead.
The killers drove the vehicle across the border into Canada, where they found a ready buyer in Nana Kwabena Amuah, a Ghanaian fraudster convicted in 2023 for his role in a US$4.6m scheme in Lexington, Kentucky. Amuah swiftly shipped the asset to Accra.
Upon arrival, the conspicuous matte grey supercar drew the attention of Adu-Boahene’s NSB, which impounded it.
Rather than handing it over to authorities, the bureau chief appropriated the vehicle, changed its number plates, and used it for his personal conveyance.
When the FBI began tracing the stolen asset in 2024, Adu-Boahene moved to sanitise his links. He had the car re-sprayed yellow, fitted with fresh plates, and covertly channelled it into the sponsorship of a high-profile awards ceremony, donating it as the prize for the “most impactful” figure in entertainment.
Shatta Wale was announced as the recipient for lifetime achievement. Crucially, the same event awarded Rashida Saani the entrepreneur behind the “Alhaji’s Wife” waakye chain and CEO of the I-ZAR Group as Media and Entertainment Impact personality of the year.
Saani, it emerges, previously served as Adu-Boahene’s personal assistant at the NSB, with whom she is alleged to have had a close personal relationship.
The FBI’s tracing efforts did not cease with the change of government. After the NDC assumed power in January 2025, US authorities enlisted EOCO’s assistance.
Investigators traced the vehicle to Shatta Wale’s Trassaco Valley residence. Initially, Wale reportedly confessed that he had received the car as an award. Yet in a subsequent statement to EOCO, he reversed course, claiming to have purchased it for US$150,000 in cash from an unidentified street vendor.
This duplicitous testimony has severely undermined his credibility. Wale alleged the seller contacted him via WhatsApp under the moniker “ZAK,” but he has since deleted the contact and admits he does not know the individual’s real identity.
Crucially, he has produced no sales receipt, no transfer of ownership documentation, and no verifiable address for the vendor. The sole customs paperwork tied to the vehicle remains in the name of the convicted fraudster, Nana Kwabena Amuah.
Adu-Boahene, for his part, has maintained a perjurious denial of any knowledge of the vehicle.
The forensic audit of the car’s chain of custody, however, paints a damning picture of state capture by a senior intelligence official, leveraging his office to launder a murder-linked asset before dressing it up as a charitable prize.
As EOCO continues its forensic probe into the broader network, both the former spymaster and the musician face intensifying scrutiny for their respective roles in what appears to be a classic case of illicit enrichment disguised as showbusiness philanthropy.