The Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, has reiterated that the levelled Addo led government is committed to ensuring the country’s laws on corruption are applicable to all citizens irrespective of their political lineage. According to him, that is the surest way of fighting the canker in Ghana. The Nana Addo administration has not been without scandals since assuming …
The Public Services Commission headed by Mrs Bridget Katsiriku, has appointed private legal practitioner, Kissi Agyebeng as the Chairman of the Electronic Communications Tribunal (ECT). He takes over from Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah who resigned from the Tribunal on July 1, 2019, having occupied the position for almost four years. His role is to oversee the affairs and adjudication of …
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has recovered GH¢99,165,369.29 being proceeds of crime between 2014 and March 2019. Commissioner of Police (COP) Frank Adu-Poku (Rtd.), the Executive Director of EOCO, announced this at the organization’s maiden national stakeholders’ forum in Accra, Mr. Adu-Poku said those were resources which otherwise would have been dissipated and lost to the State. The …
seven workers of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) have been dismissed for extortion and conflict of interest within the last two years. According to the Executive Director of EOCO, COP Frank Adu Poku, the move is part of an ongoing ‘house cleaning’ exercise to weed out dubious personnel from the system as well as reduce public perception …
Mrs Jacqueline Avotri, the Head of Public affairs at EOCO, has beseeched stakeholders not to waste time when conducting investigations into revenues generated by criminals once they are arrested. She maintained that unfortunately, criminal responses which span from intelligence gathering to recovering stolen assets have been insufficient and have for that matter made it difficult to trace assets before, during …
A group, calling itself the Looming National Members, has refuted a statement by the Economic Organised Crime Office (EOCO) which described the investment deal as a scam and cautioned Ghanaians to stay away from it. In a statement issued by the group, it said its members, numbering about 100,000 people, wish to set the records straight on some distortions by …
This comes on the back of EOCO’s securing a court order to freeze landed properties and companies belonging to Nana Appiah Mensah alias NAM 1 currently in detention at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) MenzGold Ghana which is a Gold dealership company and the mother of other companies which Zylofon Music is a part is currently crawling due to series …
A Police officer who allegedly collected GH¢70,000 cedis from a Chinese national under the pretext of dropping case being investigated by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (ECEO) has appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra. Cyril Lumor Frank who was dismissed from the Ghana Police Service for misconduct was in the dock with two others. Frank and his accomplices …
A supposed brother of embattled Menzgold CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah, has accused the Economic and Organize Crime Officer (EOCO) of sealing a $51 million fraud case. According to the man only known as KOD, EOCO is aware of the pending fraud case which led to the arrest of NAM1, who he claims is innocent of the crime, late last year. …
