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Former Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah challenged a claim by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) that she is receiving funds a bank account belonging to her late brother.
The OSP having complied with a court ruling to return monies and assets seized from the former minister on grounds of suspected corruption and corruption related offences re-seized the said monies and sought a confirming of the new seizure from the court.
However, in a sworn affidavit responding to the OSP’s application, Madam Dapaah vehemently denied and challenged assertions that the monies and assets seized from her residence were tainted.
The OSP had told the court that the bank account of a late brother of the former minister is still active and that the said account recently sent money to the former minister even though it was supposed to be inactive.
But responding to the claim, Madam Dapaah asserted that the monies were transferred from an account which was opened to receive funeral donations for late brother and was rightly designated “The Late Nana Akwasi Essan” for which she is a signatory.
She also stated that the monies that were transferred from the account in question to her bank account was for the payment of fees for late brother’s children.
“That money was being transferred from my deceased brother’s account into my account when the truth is that funds were transferred from Cal Bank from an account in the name “The Late Nana Akwasi Essan” to which I am a signatory. This account was opened with funeral donations collected by Cal Bank at my late brother’s funeral.
“The correct account name is conspicuously stated in Applicant’s Exhibit OSP18 and the Applicant could easily have ascertained the mandate on the account from Cal Bank. The funds are transferred to me for payment of the school fees of my late brother’s children,” she stated in her affidavit.
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