- According to the most recent court records submitted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Cecilia Dapaah’s deceased brother’s bank account was actively transmitting money to the former sanitation minister.
- The Office has made several attempts to corroborate the confiscation of allegedly tainted properties belonging to Madam Dapaah, but this is the most recent.
- In a report by myjoyonline, the former Minister is said to have millions of cedis, as revealed in documents obtained and filed in court by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, however the OSP claims it was unable to establish the source of the money. Additionally, there are new allegations in the petition 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 is still claiming that “amounts of 10,450 and 11,280, respectively, were transferred, reportedly by the deceased brother to the first respondent (Cecilia Dapaah),” respectively, on September 19, 2022, and May 23, 2023.
- 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.
