The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has announced its intention to return the docket concerning former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

This decision comes after the Office of the Attorney General advised against initiating money laundering investigations into Cecilia Dapaah. The Attorney General's office cited the OSP's failure to establish evidence of corruption or corruption-related offences as the reason for its advice.

Speaking at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Africa, Executive Director of EOCO, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, reiterated that there was nothing her office could do in the absence of evidence supporting such investigations.

“If you read the A-G’s advice, whatever that we would have done had already been directed at the police CID. And like he said this morning, when you investigate a case and you do not find anything, we should be bold enough to come and tell the public that for this case, even though I suspected this at the day, that wasn’t what came out; we should be bold the Ghanaian.

“So, we cannot continue to be fishing like you don’t even know what you are looking for. You just go about looking for something that you know that you are not even sure.

“So, what I am going to do is that with the A-G’s advice, I will send the docket that we received from the OSP to him that there is nothing in it,” she stated.

On May 1, the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice advised against conducting money laundering investigations into the activities of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO).

The Attorney General's office determined that the request made by the Special Prosecutor's office to EOCO to initiate money laundering investigations into Cecilia Dapaah's affairs lacked a valid basis.