The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has announced the results of its investigation into former Sanitation and Water Resources Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah. The OSP, in collaboration with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), found no “direct and immediate evidence of corruption” related to the large sums of money and valuable items seized from Dapaah and her associates.
According to the OSP’s Half-Yearly Report for July 2025, the nearly seven-month investigation, which began in July 2023, did uncover “strong indications of suspected money laundering and structuring,” activities that fall outside the OSP’s direct investigative purview.
The OSP report states: “After nearly seven months of extensive investigation by the Office and a parallel inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, no direct and immediate evidence of corruption was found in respect of seized funds and frozen bank accounts linked to Ms. Dapaah and her associates – though the investigation identified strong indications of suspected money laundering and structuring, beyond the direct mandate of the Office.”
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As a result, in January 2024, the OSP referred the case to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) for further investigation of the potential money laundering offenses, which fall under EOCO’s primary jurisdiction.
However, in May 2024, EOCO returned the entire docket to the OSP, arguing that “since money laundering is not a substantive offence but a collateral offence which must be founded on a predicate offence, EOCO did not have a mandate to commence investigations into the matter since it could not premise its investigation on any predicate offence.”
The case saw a new turn of events in May 2025 when, under new leadership, EOCO formally requested the docket back from the OSP for a fresh review and commencement of an investigation. The OSP complied on May 29, 2025, forwarding a duplicate docket to EOCO.
The OSP stated that the dossier “serves as a valuable background resource for EOCO to commence its own investigation in respect of aspects of the case the Office does not have a direct mandate.” The OSP pledged its “full collaborative support to EOCO in its review and investigation and probable further action.”
The investigation into Ms. Dapaah began after the OSP froze her bank accounts and seized substantial sums of cash found in her home, becoming one of the most closely watched corruption probes in recent years. The latest developments indicate that while the OSP and FBI did not find evidence to support direct corruption charges, the financial transactions remain under scrutiny for potential money laundering offenses, which are now in the hands of EOCO.
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