General News of Sunday, 3 August 2025
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Philbro Group Limited, a Ghanaian conglomerate with interests in real estate, commodity trading, and vegetable oil bottling, has rejected allegations linking the company and its CEO, Philip Kwame Brobbey, to the sale of an allegedly stolen luxury vehicle to former National Signals Bureau Director-General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene.
Speaking in an interview with GhanaWeb TV in Oyarifa on Friday, August 1, 2025, Jeremiah Quayson, Director of Philbro Group, denied claims suggesting the company was involved in selling a BMW 740D vehicle at the centre of Adu-Boahene's ongoing criminal trial.
"We do not trade in automobiles; this was a personal transaction between our CEO and Mr. Adu-Boahene. It had nothing to do with Philbro Group."
Jeremiah Quayson accused the former Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea, who is representing Adu-Boahene in court, of "unfairly attempting to link" the company to the controversial vehicle sale.
"It is deeply regrettable that defamatory statements have emerged portraying Mr Brobbey as knowingly having sold a stolen car. These allegations have caused substantial reputational damage to him both in Ghana and internationally," Quayson said.
He clarified that Brobbey lawfully acquired the BMW 740D locally from a Ghanaian car dealer and subsequently sold it to Adu-Boahene in August 2024, not December 2024 as previously reported.
"Before the sale, Adu-Boahene conducted due diligence and...
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