The Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice says the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s (OSP) referral to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) for investigations to be conducted into money laundering in the Cecilia Dapaah case is without basis.
The Attorney General’s office has, therefore, advised the EOCO against initiating investigations of money laundering against the former Sanitation Minister.
According to the Attorney General’s office, the docket presented to EOCO only contains the OSP’s letter transmitting the docket, the diary of action, statements taken during the investigation, and letters written by the OSP to other institutions like the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and banks for inquiries.
“In the absence of the identification of any criminality associated with the properties retrieved from the suspects, the OSP’s referral to EOCO for investigations to be conducted into money laundering is without basis.”
“Even though as part of your mandate you can commence investigations into source(s) of the money found in the home of the suspects, we do not find this necessary since the Office before the reference by the OSP, had instructed the Police Service who are already seized with other aspects of the case to investigate the source(s) of the huge sums of money found in the home of the suspects, a fact the OSP is aware of. “
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