The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has denied claims that its officials who conducted a search at the offices of the Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) to retrieve relevant information to aid ongoing investigations destroyed items at the facility.
Based on a court-granted warrant, the OSP claims that the search was conducted to gather pertinent data to support its investigation into the assurance company's operations in the downstream petroleum sector under a contract with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
Samuel Appiah Darko, Director of Strategy, Research, and Communication, stated in a Daily Graphic interview, that during last Monday's search operation, OSP investigators did not destroy any property at SML offices other than to remove and seize items that were pertinent to their investigation.
He added that the OSP investigators prepared a list of the items seized as part of its standard operating procedure. "This is called the Form 3 and it's titled 'Inventory of items seized or detained during search by an authorised officer". Mr Darko stated that the SML Director of IT, Samuel Jacob Prempeh, signed the document on behalf of SML, with his colleague Rev.
