2026 Global Fraud Summit

The Ambassador and team were honoured and delighted to welcome the respective Deputy Ministers for Justice & Attorney-General, Hon. Justice Srem Sai and the Minister for the Interior, Hon. Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, to the 2026 Global Fraud Summit.

The Deputy Minister for Justice & Attorney-General, Hon. Justice Srem shared Ghana’s activities in combating fraud. These include agency-to-agency partnerships with the National Crime Agency of the UK and through Public Private Partnerships with private actors, the work of Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office. Efforts underway to provide restitution to the victims of the fraud in both Ghana and the UK were also highlighted.

 Other forms of collaboration between Ghana’s national law enforcement agencies and international partners in terms of extraditions to the United States of America were also highlighted.

The international collaboration involved the US FBI, the INTERPOL among others. The local agencies include the Economic and Organised Crime Office, the Police CID, the Immigration Service, and Cybersecurity Authority.

 The deputy Minister for Justice reiterated two common issues that the Summit highlighted. First the fraudsters do not respect national borders. Secondly, technology has made it much easier for fraudsters to disrespect borders even more.

In that regard, be reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to working closely with international partners to exchange knowledge, share intelligence, and strengthen collective resilience against organized fraud networks.

Ghana showed its commitment at the Summit through moving from commitment to action and reinforcing public-private cooperation. Ghana did so by endorsing two outcome documents open to voluntary endorsement: the Call to Action on Combating Fraud and the Global Public-Private Partnership Framework against Fraud.

The country further pledged to take immediate steps to give effect to the “Call to Action” including strengthening inter-agency collaboration among law enforcement, financial regulators, and anti-corruption institutions while continuing to build national capacity in digital investigations and asset recovery.

The meeting with the Rt. Hon Lord Hanson of Flint, Minister of State at the Home Office, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and his team including my colleague from the UK, Ambassador Lindsay Skoll was productive.