The Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor (OSP) has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered no direct or speedy proof of corruption in relation to the seized funds of former Minister of Sanitation and Water Sources, Cecelia Abena Dapaah, and her associates.
This was contained within the OSP’s half-year report for 2025, dated 31 July.
It is going to be recalled that in July 2023, the OSP confirmed it had launched a joint inquiry with the FBI into suspected corruption and corruption-related offences involving massive sums of cash and different valuables linked to Ms Dapaah.
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Particular Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng
Offering an replace, the OSP famous that after practically seven months of in depth investigations, “no direct and speedy proof of corruption was present in respect of seized funds and frozen financial institution accounts linked to Ms Dapaah and her associates – although the investigation recognized robust indications of suspected cash laundering and structuring, past the direct mandate of the Workplace.”
The report additional recalled that in January 2024, the Workplace referred the case to the Financial and Organised Crime Workplace (EOCO) to research the suspected cash laundering and structuring actions, which fall straight below its mandate.
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Nevertheless, the OSP famous:
In Could 2024, EOCO returned your complete docket to the Workplace, reasoning that since cash laundering shouldn’t be a substantive offence however a collateral one which have to be based on a predicate offence, EOCO had no mandate to start investigations with out a longtime predicate offence.
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The report added that by a letter dated 14 Could 2025, the brand new management of EOCO requested the OSP to ahead the docket again for evaluation and the graduation of an investigation.
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Subsequently, below cowl of communication dated 29 Could 2025, the OSP forwarded a replica docket of the case to EOCO.