A former banker is facing charges in Brooklyn for international money laundering, according to Breon Peace – U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York.

Asante Kwaku Berko, a dual resident of the United States and Ghana, is being charged for using United States currency to bribe Ghanian officials to secure a power plant deal. Between 2014 and 2017, Berko and others paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure that a Turkish energy company won a bid to build the power plant.

Berko was extradited Monday to the Eastern District of New York from the United Kingdom where he was arrested on Nov. 3, 2022.