The Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice has said the matter involving former Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has not been closed for investigation.
Wilberforce Isaac Mensah, spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General, has disclosed that any interested party can revisit the case anytime.
He explains the letter from the A-G does not in any way suggest that investigations on the matter has been closed, adding that if there is need for prosecution, that will be done.
However, he added that no criminality has been established on the matter as at now.
“What the Office of the Attorney General has done is not to close any door for investigation. We have not closed any doors for investigation. The Attorney General has indicated already that the police are investigating the matter. And most of the documents that the OSP relied on for its investigation were obtained from the Ghana Police Service.”
“So how has the Attorney General, by this letter or the Office of the Attorney General, closed investigations? That certainly cannot be what the letter wants to suggest. If investigations are opened and there is a need to prosecute, we will do that, but as it stands now, no crime has been established,” he said on Accra-based Citi News Thursday, May 02, 2024.
Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that the status of the matter involving money laundering is an orchestration by the various investigative bodies that handled the case.
Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, head of Legal Affairs for the NDC has said the A-G’s advice to EOCO to halt investigations into the matter leaves much to be desired.
Flag bearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama, has, meanwhile, announced that he will revisit the matter should Ghanaians give him the opportunity to become President again.
He says the Attorney General’s advice against the Economic and Organized Crime Office conducting money laundering inquiries into the former minister raises a lot of suspicion.
Speaking on the matter, Mr. Edudzi Tamakloe said he will not be surprised that the various institutions investigating the case teamed up to abruptly end it.
“Whatever it is that the president has said, it appears the various law enforcement agencies have all worked together to reach this particular conclusion. And that is what it is. And so it is not surprising to many of us that the Attorney General’s office will come out with this, knowing EOCO has not provided the good people of this country any form of whatever the response the FBI has given, relative to the huge findings identified in the course of the investigation,” he told Accra-based Citi News.
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