The Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has confirmed receiving the docket related to Cecilia Dapaah, the former Sanitation Minister, concerning an alleged money laundering case.
However, she noted that although the Office of the Special Prosecutor has officially submitted the docket to her office, she has not yet had the opportunity to review its contents.
She therefore hesitated from making any further comments on the matter when engaged by the media at a Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) event in Accra on January 29.
“I have that, and we are now reviewing, at the appropriate time, we will speak about it. I am not well briefed about the docket, so I don’t want to make any comment on it until we review it. The most important thing is that he has handed over, I don’t have any more thing to add,” she explained.
The Special Prosecutor (SP), Kissi Agyebeng, has officially referred the case involving the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah, to the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) for further investigations into suspected money laundering.
This decision was prompted by revelations that a substantial amount of cash found at Dapaah’s residence, along with funds in her bank accounts, may have been repatriated from abroad.
The investigation took a cross-border turn when individuals of interest claimed that part of the seized cash was transported to the United States. As a result, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) collaborated with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to delve into the matter.