IGP Special Operations Team Intercepts GH¢20 Million Worth of Suspected Counterfeit GTP Fabrics in Adabraka
Personnel of the Inspector-General of Police Special Operations Team (SOT) have arrested two suspects and impounded a massive consignment of assorted wax-print textiles suspected to be counterfeit GTP fabrics valued at approximately GH¢20 million at Adabraka in Accra.
According to an official statement published on the Ghana Police Service’s social media channels on Thursday, November 12, 2026, the suspects—50-year-old Salifu Mamuda and 44-year-old Iddrisa Mohammed—were apprehended on Monday, November 9, 2026, during an intelligence-led raid.
Police indicated that the operation was triggered by credible intelligence that two heavy-duty articulated trucks, suspected to have traveled from Nigeria, were offloading contraband merchandise at a warehouse situated off the Kojo Thompson Highway. Moving swiftly on the tip-off, operatives stormed the facility and intercepted the two haulage vehicles bearing registration numbers SMK-161-YH and T-28975-LA, which were loaded with large quantities of imitation wax-print fabrics believed to have been smuggled into Ghana.
The entire impounded consignment has since been transported to the National Police Headquarters in Accra to be held as exhibits while forensic and regulatory verifications are conducted.
Both Mamuda and Mohammed remain in police custody assisting investigators with inquiries, as law enforcement agencies widen their probe to track down other accomplices and financiers linked to the cross-border smuggling and local distribution network.
Source: Thepressradio.com
