The OSP has been looking into Cecilia Dapaah, the former minister of sanitation, when it was reported that her two housekeepers stole $300,000 and $1 million from her Abelempke property. About eight people have been charged by the state with crimes related to the purported theft case.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States of America have initiated concurrent investigations into the activities of former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her associates.
The OSP in a post on ‘X’ formerly Twitter on Wednesday indicated that “These investigations primarily focus on examining their assets and financial transactions within the United States of America.”
According to the OSP, the collaborative effort is to ascertain the lawfulness of Ms Dapaah and her associates’ wealth, “both in the context of their funds transitioning from Ghana to the United States and vice versa.”
In July, Ms. Dapaah gained notoriety upon learning that two of her housekeepers were appearing before an Accra Circuit Court on charges of embezzlement totalling millions of Ghanaian Cedis.
The public called for her resignation, and on July 22, 2023, she finally gave it up.
In the meantime, the former minister of sanitation has filed an application for an interlocutory injunction against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in an effort to prevent the Office from looking into and bringing charges against her husband, Daniel Osei Kufuor, and herself for alleged offenses related to corruption.
According to court records that citinewsroom.com has access to, the former minister is also pleading with the judge to order the OSP to release the hold on her bank accounts.
She is pleading with the court to rule that her bank accounts’ refreezing and the confiscation of money discovered in her Abelemkpe home were unjust and arbitrary.
“A Declaration that, in relation to the constitutional provisions of Articles 23 and 296 of the Constitution, 1992, the Respondent’s re-seizure of the money (which was first taken from the Applicant’s home on July 24, 23) and re-freezing of the Applicant’s bank accounts, respectively, on September 5, 2023, is unfair, unreasonable, capricious, arbitrary, and ultra vires the Respondent’s statutory powers under Act 959.”
Additionally, the attorneys representing Madam Dapaah are requesting that the court make “an Order prohibiting the Respondent from continuing the investigation of the Applicant and her husband for corruption or corruption-related offences.”
Madam Dapaah utilized aliases to hide transactions from undeclared real estate business and other transactions to justify the reseizure and refreezing of her bank account, according to court documents submitted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in September. However, the ex-minister called the assertions deceptive.
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