The former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, has been arrested in the United States and is currently in custody awaiting extradition to Ghana.
The arrest was confirmed in a statement issued by the Ghanaian Embassy in Washington, D.C., dated January 15, 2026, and signed by Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Victor Emmanuel Smith. According to the statement, Mrs. Tamakloe-Attionu was arrested by U.S. Marshals on January 6, 2026, and is being held at the Nevada Southern Detention Centre in Pahrump, Nevada.
The Embassy disclosed that the arrest was carried out following an extradition request submitted by the Government of Ghana to U.S. authorities in July 2024. The statement noted that Mrs. Tamakloe-Attionu remains in detention pending court proceedings related to the extradition process.
Mrs. Tamakloe-Attionu had previously been declared wanted by Ghanaian authorities after she failed to return to Ghana to serve a custodial sentence imposed by an Accra High Court. The sentence stems from corruption-related offences committed during her tenure as head of MASLOC.
Story by: Ernest Frimpong
