The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has recently filed documents indicating that money was being sent to Former Minister of Sanitation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah from the supposed account of her late brother.
This is the most recent strategy by the Office to confirm the seizure of Madam Dapaah’s allegedly tainted property. The OSP recently seized millions of cash from the former minister and ordered the freezing of some bank accounts containing over ¢40 million transactions.
The OSP was ordered to return the funds to Cecilia Dapaah after a High Court in Accra ruled against confirming the seizures and freezing order. The Special Prosecutor did what was asked of him, but he is now back in court trying to get the seizure approved.
According to court documents obtained exclusively by JoyNews and filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, the former Minister possesses millions of cedis, which she is unable to account for.
The filing also includes new allegations that funds were being transferred to former minister Cecilia Dapaah from the account of her deceased brother.
“Analysis of the statements in the first respondent’s (Cecilia Dapaah) bank account revealed highly suspicious transactions involving the name of the first respondent’s deceased brother, Nana Akwasi Essan.”
“The said Nana Akwasi Essan died in January 2022, and there is no record domiciled at the financial institutions of probate or letters of administration granted to personal representatives… Strangely, there are active transfers from the deceased person’s bank account to that of the first respondent’s account”, the filing alleges.
“As recently as September 19, 2022, and May 23, amounts of ¢10,450 and ¢11,280, respectively, were transferred, supposedly by the deceased brother, to the first respondent (Cecilia Dapaah),” according to the OSP’s latest allegations.
