According to the most recent court documents submitted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Cecilia Dapaah’s deceased brother’s bank account was actively sending money to the former sanitation minister.
The Office has made several attempts to confirm the seizure of allegedly tainted properties belonging to Madam Dapaah, but this is the most recent.
Recently, the OSP frozen some bank accounts with over 40 million transactions and seized millions of dollars in cash from the former Minister.
The OSP was told to return the money to Cecilia Dapaah by the Accra High Court after it declined to confirm the seizures and freezing order.
The Special Prosecutor complied, but is now back in court to request confirmation of the seizure.
The former Minister is alleged to have millions of cedis, according to documents obtained exclusively by JoyNews and filed in court by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, although the OSP claims it was unable to establish the source of the money.
Additionally, there are new allegations in the filing that money was still being sent to Cecilia Dapaah’s accounts from an account that belonged to the deceased brother of the former Minister.
“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.
The OSP continue to allege that “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).”
On October 18, 2023, the High Court will hear the case as the Special Prosecutor makes another effort to confirm the amount of money that has been seized and the freezing of the Bank accounts.
