‘Criminal law can’t turn every poor commercial judgment involving state entity into an offence’ – Victoria Bright

International corporate lawyer and entrepreneur Victoria Bright has cautioned against automatically treating the controversial SIC Life settlement at the centre of the Economic and Organised Crime Office’s (EOCO) investigation into Manhyia South MP Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah as a criminal matter.

Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile, she said the fact that a commercial settlement involving a state entity may subsequently appear unwise does not, on its own, establish criminal conduct.

She stressed that “a bad settlement is not automatically a crime”, arguing that commercial decisions can sometimes prove unwise without necessarily constituting criminal offences.