A search has begun for the whereabouts of a judgment debt account the Controller and Accountant General’s department insists exist at the Bank of Ghana.

Officials from the Controller and Accountant General’s department in some correspondence with the bank of Ghana confirmed there is the existence of the account from which judgment debts are being paid.

The Bank has denied any such existence.

The search for the mystery account began Wednesday, at the Judgement Debt hearing.

Joy News' Seth Kwame Boateng who was present at the hearing reported that officials from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department produced a number of correspondence indicating the presence of the special judgment debt account from which judgment debts were paid.

The Accountant General’s Department had written twice to the bank of Ghana, one on the 11th of January 2007 and the other 15th of January 2007  directing it to release monies from this judgment debt account to some individuals.

But when the Bank of Ghana’s Deputy Chief Manager Gabriel Bokor appeared before the commission today he insisted that account referred to by the Accountant General’s department was never a judgment debt account but rather a five year Treasury Bond Account.

Again officials of the Bank Ghana told the commissioner the letter they received from the Controller and Accountant General's department asking them to pay the said judgment debts did not have the account numbers being referred.

Justice Yaw Appau wondered why the Controller and Accountant General would quote this account number twice and insist it is a judgment debt account from which people must be paid only for the Bank of Ghana to deny the existence of the account.

The Sole Commissioner tasked by President John Mahama to investigate cases of judgement debt immediately subpoenaed the Accountant General to appear before the Commission to bring clarity to the matter.

He also asked officials of the Bank of Ghana to go back and find out if they can locate these letters and reappear before the commission on the 10th of April, 2014.