A bank account belonging to a deceased brother of former Sanitation and Water Resources minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, according to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is still active and sends money to her account.
A fact sheet filed by the OSP in court Tuesday, September 19, 2023 contained those details.
“Analysis of the statements in the first respondent’s Prudential Bank account number 0090924640014 highly suspicious transactions involving the name of the first respondent’s deceased brother – Nana Akwasi Essan. The said Nana Akwasi Essan died in January 2022 and there is no record domiciled at the financial institutions of probate or letters of administration granted to personal representatives).
“Strangely, there are active transfers from the deceased person’s bank account to that of the first respondent’s Prudential Bank account number 0090924640014.
“As recently as 19 September 2022 and 23 May 2023, amounts of Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty cedis (GH¢10,450.00) and Eleven Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty cedis (GH¢11,280.00) respectively were transferred, supposedly by the deceased brother to the first respondent.”
Madam Abena Dapaah according to the OSP’s fact sheet has also been using aliases to conceal transactions from undeclared real estate business.
“The OSP’s criminal intelligence further suggested that the first respondent, as a Minister of State, was engaged in an undisclosed and undeclared real estate business in which she obscured and concealed the transactions by employing the use of aliases to avoid detection of the actual ownership of the business and properties, while cleverly receiving the proceeds of the transactions in her bank accounts and investments,” the document contained.
Also, large sums of money far above the income of Cecilia Dapaah as a Minister of State per the OSP’s criminal intelligence were “secreted and stashed up in her residence; and that her house-helps had allegedly helped themselves to part of said sums of money through larceny.”
The OSP has also explained that it confiscated the financial assets of Madam Dapaah because they were tainted didn’t want them to be concealed or lost since they were going to be used as evidence in the matter.
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