The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has detailed a series of alarming discoveries following its interrogation of dancehall artist Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, concerning a luxury vehicle linked to an international fraud case.
The musician was granted bail in the sum of GH¢10 million with two sureties after being questioned for several hours on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. He remains in custody pending the verification of the sureties' properties.
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The investigation centres on a 2019 Lamborghini Urus, identified by the FBI and the US Justice Department as proceeds of a $4 million crime masterminded by Nana Kwabena Amuah, a Ghanaian currently serving an 86-month prison sentence in the United States for conspiracy to commit money laundering.
EOCO’s interrogation revealed five critical findings that severely challenge the artist’s account of how he acquired the vehicle:
Firstly, Charles Nii Armah Mensah has been unable to identify the person from whom he purchased the said Lamborghini Urus vehicle.
Secondly, he claimed he purchased it from the “Street”, offering no credible location or point of sale for the high-value asset.
Thirdly, he suggested the transaction may have been facilitated by someone possibly called “ZAK” who may have contacted him on WhatsApp but whose identity he does not know and whose contact he has thrown away.
Fourthly, he does not possess any documentation in terms of receipt or transfer documents which shows that he owns or purchased the said vehicle.
Finally, the only document in his possession related to the car is a custom declaration document bearing the name of Nana Kwabena Amuah, the convicted fraudster serving time in a US federal prison.
The US Justice Department had previously secured a court order from the Eastern District of Kentucky for the forfeiture of the vehicle, authorising the US government to take possession of it in Ghana as restitution for the crime.
EOCO’s statement also noted the artist’s delayed cooperation, arriving at its offices at 3pm and insisting on waiting for his counsel, which prolonged the process until the interrogation concluded around 9pm.
The investigation forms part of a larger probe into possible co-conspirators in Ghana regarding the multi-million dollar fraud, which involved impersonating vendors to defraud nearly 70 public and private organisations across the United States.
