The Director of the Strategy, Research and Communication Division at the Office of the Special Prosecutor says his office only acted as a whistleblower when it referred the Cecilia Dapaah case to the  Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) for investigation.

According to Sammy Appiah Darko, the onus fell on EOCO to thoroughly investigate Cecilia Dapaah after it was handed a docket with sufficient evidence to build a money laundering case.

“The OSP should be taken as a whistleblower to EOCO. So, as a whistleblower, we have given EOCO platinum information. Ordinarily, you will not even find other agencies giving such information to EOCO.

"The Attorney General's office talks about a docket. That particular docket has caution statements of suspects and witnesses - about 20 suspects and witnesses in America, in Accra and Ashanti Region,” he said on JoyNews' Newsfile.

Mr Darko explained that, it was based on investigations conducted by the OSP, that the Office deemed it necessary to transfer the case to EOCO.

This is contrary to the claims of the Attorney General, Godfred Dame, that the suspicions of money laundering were solely based on transactions the former Sanitation Minister made between the US and Ghana.

“So it is not just in respect of a transaction in America, but also in respect of the money, the over GHS10 million that we found in Madam Dapaah's house including all the monies we saw passing through her bank account.

"So our referral is not just in respect of a transaction in America. Also, we were not conducting a money laundering investigation, we were conducting a corruption investigation,” Mr Darko added.

This comes after the Attorney General and Minister of Justice advised EOCO against initiating money laundering investigations into the dealings of former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah.

According to the Attorney General's office, the docket presented to EOCO only contained the OSP’s letter transmitting the docket, the diary of action, statements taken during the investigation, and letters written by the OSP to other institutions like the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and banks for inquiries.

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Further analysis of the docket by the Attorney General's office revealed that the OSP did not find any evidence of corruption or corruption-related offences against Cecilia Dapaah.

The AG concluded that the request by the OSP to EOCO for money laundering investigations into Cecilia Dapaah’s affairs lacked merit.

Also, speaking on Newsfile, the Attorney General insisted that the scope within which the Special Prosecutor invited EOCO to initiate a money laundering case against Madaam Dapaah, was very limited.

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According to Mr Dame, the investigation into the alleged stolen money case of Madam Dapaah was restricted to purported fund transfers from the United States.

However, Mr Darko insists that if their referral for a money laundering investigation was baseless, the Attorney General would not have directed the police to investigate the source of Cecilia Dapaah’s wealth.

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Addressing the claims that OSP failed to present its investigations with the FBI to EOCO, Mr Darko said that the anti-graft institution did not ask for the FBI's corruption investigations report.

Mr Darko added that had the request been made, the OSP would have had to seek clearance before handing it over.