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The background outlines the 2011 financing agreement, project objectives, closure date, and procurement events involving a consortium and contract signatory arrangements. Findings detail alleged submission of forged manufacturer authorization letters and concealment of high-value agent payments through fraudulent invoices.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nRepublic of Ghana  \nOil and Gas Capacity Building Project  \nRedacted Report  \nNovember 2020  \nStatement of Use and Limitations  \nThis strictly confidential report (the Report) was prepared by the World Bank Group (the “WBG”) Integrity Vice Presidency (“INT”) . It provides the findings of an INT administrative inquiry (the“Investigation”) into allegations of corrupt, fraudulent, collusive, and/or coercive practices, as defined by the WBG for the purposes of its own policies, rules and procedures (the “WBG’s Anticorruption Framework”), in relation to WBG-supported activities. The purpose of the Investigation was to allow the WBG to determine if the WBG’s Anti-corruption Framework had been violated.  \nThis Report is being shared to ensure that its recipients are aware of the results of the INT Investigation. However, in view of the specific and limited purpose of the Investigation underlying this Report, this Report should not be used as the sole basis for initiating any administrative, criminal, or civil proceedings. Moreover, this Report should not be cited or otherwise referred to in the course of any investigation, in any investigation reports, or in any administrative, civil, or criminal proceedings.  \nThis Report is provided without prejudice to the privileges and immunities conferred on the institutions comprising the WBG and their officers and employees by their respective constituent documents and any other applicable sources of law. The WBG reserves the right to invoke these privileges and immunities, including at any time during the course of an investigation or a subsequent judicial, administrative or other proceeding that your authorities may pursue in connection with this matter. These privileges and immunities cannot be waived without the prior express written authorization ofthe WBG.  \nBackground  \nIn April 2011, the International Development Association and the Republic of Ghana entered into a US Dollars (“US$”) 38 million Financing Agreement for the Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project (the “Project”) in Ghana.  \nThe Project aims to support the Republic of Ghana’s efforts to (i) improve management and regulatory capacity while enhancing transparency, and (ii) strengthen local technical skills in its emerging oil and gas sector. The Project closed on December 31, 2017.  \nA consortium of Company A and Company B (collectively, the “Consortium”), both companies registered in India, bid for a total of eight Project-financed contracts, and was awarded six of them.1 Company A, not the Consortium, signed all six contracts in its individual capacity.2  \nFirst, in January 2013, the Consortium bid for four Lots for the Procurement of Petroleum Laboratory Goods & Equipment for Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (“KNUST”) . Based on these bids, the Consortium was awarded three contracts, for Lots 2, 4, and 7. Company A signed the three contracts in April 2013.  \nNext, in July 2013, the Consortium bid for four Lots for the Procurement of Goods and Equipment for Oil and Gas Technical Capacity Building in Selected Technical Training Institutions (“COTVET”) . Based on these bids, the Consortium was awarded three contracts, for Lots 1, 2 and 4. Company A signed contracts for Lots 1 and 4 in November 2013; and signed the contract for Lot 2 in December 2013.  \nAllegations  \nIn January 2014, INT received an anonymous complaint alleging that Company A had submitted fraudulent Manufacturer’s Authorization Letters (“MALs”) with its KNUST and COTVET bids, and that it had paid kickbacks in exchange for the award of Project contracts.  \n1 Company A and Company B are ostensibly independent companies. However, evidence indicates that Company A’s Managing Director and Company B’s Chairman and Managing Director are father and son. 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