The Financial Court has ordered the authorities to defreeze all bank accounts of former National Health Insurance Authority boss, Sylvester Mensah.

The Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) got the court to freeze Mr. Mensah's accounts, arguing its its preliminary investigations showed there was evidence wrongdoing enough to incriminate him.

The bank accounts of Mr Mensah was frozen following an ex-parte application to the Fast Track High Court (Financial Division) by the Financial Intelligence Centre.

Mr Mensah is being investigated by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) in connection with some financial transactions and other processes at the health insurance authority during his tenure as Chief Executive.

He was said to have handed himself over to the BNI on New Year’s Day after armed BNI operatives had gone to his residence at Tse Addo, near the Trade Fair in Accra, the previous night (December 31, 2015)

Some service providers reportedly fingered him during interrogations by the BNI.

Mr Mensah is said to have spent over eight hours in assisting the security operatives in gathering information on allegations of false claims by some 10 medical facilities.

He was relieved of his post as CEO after six years in office in the middle of June 2015. 

"It's been an extremely painful experience but a legitimate action, I am happy that there were no adverse findings against me," Mr Mensah told Joy News' Raymond Acquah.