The Attorney General has asked the Accra High Court to revoke an order granting former Buffer Stock Company CEO, Hanan Abdul-Wahab, permission to travel abroad.

Dr Dominic Ayine argued that he relied on an online booking with the UK health and beauty retailer Boots rather than a confirmed medical appointment.

Mr Hanan is standing trial on charges of stealing and causing financial loss to the state involving more than GH¢70 million.

The Attorney General’s application is contained in an affidavit sworn by Radiatu Abdulai, an Assistant Staff Officer at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), in support of a motion seeking to set aside the earlier travel order.

According to the court documents, Mr Hanan told the court he needed to travel to the United Kingdom for specialist treatment for an eye condition.

However, the Attorney General says the evidence presented did not support that claim.

The affidavit states that although the accused represented that he had secured specialist medical care in the UK, “A1 could not present to this Court a valid medical appointment from a medical officer in London, but rather a British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain online booking (as Exhibit HS3 therein).”

The Attorney General also argues that the medical reports filed by the accused did not establish any urgent medical condition requiring treatment outside Ghana.

Paragraph 11 of the affidavit states: “That the two medical diagnostic reports which A1 submitted to the Court as evidence of his medical condition did not, in any way, support his claims of medical need – the two reports converging on the point that A1 was suffering from allergies and catarrh, treatable by administering anti-allergic eyedrops.”

The Attorney General contends that these circumstances have heightened concerns that the accused poses a flight risk.

According to the affidavit, the accused's conduct has “constituted the accused person into a more significant flight risk than he was in the Court’s eyes immediately before the grant of leave to travel.”

On the strength of these and other grounds, the Attorney General is asking the High Court to revoke the order permitting Mr Hanan to leave the jurisdiction.

The application is scheduled to be heard on Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.