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 detention awaiting extradition to Ghana.
This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, D.C., dated January 15, 2026, and signed by Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Victor Emmanuel Smith.
According to the Embassy, Mrs Tamakloe-Attionu was arrested by US Marshals on January 6, 2026, and is being held at the Nevada Southern Detention Centre in Pahrump, Nevada.
The statement explained that her arrest followed an extradition request submitted by Ghanaian authorities to the United States in July 2024.
“My information is that she was detained by US Marshals on January 6th and has since been kept at that detention centre. I am reliably informed that, acting on an extradition request sent to the US Authorities sometime in July 2024, US Marshals arrested Mrs Tamakloe-Attionu and placed her in detention to await her day in court.”
Mrs Tamakloe-Attionu had been declared wanted by Ghanaian authorities after she failed to return to the country to serve a custodial sentence imposed by an Accra High Court in connection with corruption-related offences during her tenure as MASLOC boss.
By: Ekow Annan/newsalertgh.com
