The Executive Director of Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Dankwa has said that her outfit plans to return the docket on Cecilia Dapaah to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
She stated that despite requesting additional information from the OSP, EOCO has not received any response.
“We cannot continue to be doing fishing. It’s like we don’t even know what we are looking for. So, what I’m going do is that with the A-G’s advice, I will send the docket that we received from the OSP to him that there is nothing for us to do,” the EOCO boss declared in an interview with 3news’ Evelyn Tengma on May 6, 2024.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor commenced investigations into the Cecilia Dapaah stashed cash case following reports that huge sums of money had been stolen from her residence.
The investigations were later referred to the EOCO after the OSP concluded that the case had to do with money laundering which does not fall within its mandate.
The Office of Attorney-General in a recent opinion described the referral as lacking basis since the OSP failed to point to any unlawful activity undertaken by the former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Dankwa explained that her office asked for directions from the Attorney-General because the OSP failed to provide additional information.
“We requested for the basis of the SP coming out with that conclusion that enabled him to say that we should continue. We requested for that, but as of now we don’t have any response and we sat down to review the whole document and at the end of the day, we realized that we couldn’t find our way clearer. Most of the time you finish your docket you can send it to the Attorney-General for advice, but this is not something we sent for advice, because we couldn’t even find our way… so we wanted the Attorney-General to look at what we’ve done and direct us as to the way forward,” she said.
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COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Dankwa says before the docket was released to EOCO, the source of the money had already been referred to the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service as directed by the A-G.
“You can only talk about money laundering when the source of the money is from unlawful activity… it will be a duplication of effort to be doing the exact thing that the CID will also be doing,” she explained.
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By Evelyn Tengma
