Cecilia Dapaah Has Undeclared Real Estate Business – OSP
Court documents filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) have revealed that the embattled former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah has an undeclared real estate business.
According to the OSP, Cecilia Dapaah “was engaged in undisclosed and undeclared real estate business in which she obscured and concealed the transactions by employing the use of aliases to avoid detection of the actual ownership of the business and properties, while cleverly receiving proceeds of the transactions in her bank account and investments.”
This is the OSP’s latest attempt to confirm the seizure of properties suspected to belong to Madam Dapaah.
Not long ago, the OSP seized millions of cash from the former minister and ordered the freezing of some bank accounts with millions.
An Accra High Court refused to confirm the seizures and freezing order and directed the OSP to return the amounts to Cecilia Dapaah.
The Special Prosecutor complied but is back in court seeking to get the seizure confirmed.
Information gathered indicates that the former minister allegedly has millions of cedis, which the OSP says she could not prove the source.
The filing also includes fresh allegations that an account belonging to the dead brother of the former minister was still sending money to Cecilia Dapaah’s accounts.
“The said Nana Akwasi Essan died in January 202,2, and there is no record domiciled at the financial institutions of probate or letters of administration granted to personal representatives).
“Strangely, there are active transfers from the deceased person’s bank account to that of the first respondent’s account,” the documents alleged.
It also revealed that “as recently as September 19, 2022, and May 23, amounts of ¢10,450 and ¢11,280 respectively were transferred, supposedly by the deceased brother to the first respondent (Cecilia Dapaah).”
The High Court will hear the case on October 18, 2023, as the Special Prosecutor makes another attempt to have the seized amount of money and the freezing of the Bank accounts confirmed.