Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusaading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako says it is a “bloody lie” to say the settlement payment to Construction Pioneers (CP) is not an act of fraud. According to him, the Serious Fraud Office, now Economic and Organized Crime Office was then investigating CP in early 2000 over some alleged issues of fraud. Why those fraud investigations were suspended and EOCO wrote a letter that gave CP a clean bill of heath culminating in the payment of €94 million to CP is matter Mr Kweku Baako says is difficult to understand. The New Crusading Guide Editor-in-Chief was discussing the issue of judgment debts on Peace FM’s morning show Kokrokoo on Wednesday. Kweku Baako added that somewhere in 2009, EOCO under the instruction of then Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrisu wrote to the international arbitration committee that indicating the accusation of fraud brought against CP was false, a major breakthrough in the process of acquiring the judgment debt. According to him, the investigations by then Serious Fraud Office indicted CP, which actually conceded that there were some instances of loading in some of their initial claims therefore there was no basis for CP to have made those same demands on the government. Kweku Baako maintained that there were enough correspondence between the Ministry of Roads and Highways and CP that were overlooked leading to the payment of €94 million to CP.