The Office of the Attorney General has returned the Office of the Special Prosecutor, OSP’s docket on former Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah and her partner, Daniel Osei Kuffuor. The document requested the Economic and Organised Crime Office, to investigate the couple for money laundering and structuring.
According to the AG, the OSP’s docket did not provide sufficient information on its investigations into the former Minister and her partner, that show suspicion of the offence of money laundering and structuring.
The documents signed by Evelyn Keelson, a Chief State Attorney, stated that a letter written by EOCO on February 1, 2024, asking the OSP for a full report into the investigation carried out in relation to the former minister and her husband, has still not been responded to by the OSP.
In the absence of the identification of any criminality associated with the properties retrieved from the suspects, the OSP’s referral to EOCO for investigations to be conducted into money laundering “is without basis.” And this was pointed out in the document forwarded to EOCO from the AG’s Office.
The OSP arrested Madam Dapaah on July 24, 2023, on suspicion of corruption and corruption-related offences after she and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffuor reported huge sums of money was stolen from their home by their two house maids. The OSP on January 25 this year dropped the case of suspected corruption and corruption-related act against Madam Dapaah.
It was not immediately known why the Office decided to drop the cases, as the Special Prosecutor, Mr Kissi Agyebeng, Madam Dapaah, her husband and their lawyers met in the judge’s chambers when the case was called, at the instance of the OSP.
