Cecilia Dapaah: Withdraw letter to EOCO – Kpebu to AG

Private Legal Practitioner Martin Kpebu has urged the Attorney General to retract its letter to the Economic and Organised Crime Office, which recommended halting the money laundering investigations into former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah’s affairs.

The Attorney General’s office advised against these investigations on May 1, following its determination that the Special Prosecutor’s request for such investigations lacked basis.

In an interview with Selorm Adonoo on Citi TV’s The Big Issue, Kpebu described the Attorney General’s letter as a “huge mistake” and suggested its withdrawal.

The AG is insisting that you need a predicate offence before you can prosecute someone for money laundering, but that is not correct, it’s false, we have changed the law!

The Attorney General’s letter is so bad, that it has to be withdrawn

The Attorney General’s office’s review of the docket revealed no findings of corruption against Dapaah by the OSP.

However, the Attorney General’s office believes that the key to a money laundering charge lies in gains obtained from criminal proceeds resulting from illegal activities.