AG’s reasons for EOCO to halt money laundering probe against Dapaah not grounded in law – Kpebu

Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has asked the Attorney General to withdraw its letter to EOCO in which it advised the agency to cease investigating former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah for money laundering.

Describing the advice as “false and not grounded in law,” Kpebu stated that there was no need for a predicate offence for prosecution against the former minister as suggested by the AG.

Speaking on Citi TV's ‘The Big Issue’, he said “The letter is a huge mistake, a faux pas, that was a wrong step because the letter is not grounded in law.

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.

There’s a new law, for us in Ghana, that says no need for predicate offence.”.

On May 1, the Attorney General's office advised EOCO against continuing with the money laundering probe against Cecilia Dapaah.

The Special Prosecutor further recommended that the focus should rather be on money laundering investigations