commenced investigations<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>into the activities of three officials of the EC; Georgina Opoku Amankwah, Chief Accountant, Kwaku Owusu Agyei-Larbi and \u00a0Finance Officer, Joseph Kwaku Asamoah, after over 480,000 cedis went missing, resulting in the officials being asked to proceed on leave.<\/p>\nSpeaking to Accra-based Peace FM, the\u00a0Executive Director of EOCO, K. K. Amoah, stated that, investigations were far advanced into the matter, and that they would submit their findings to the Attorney General very soon.<\/p>\n
“We are still on the case. I met with my colleagues and we noticed that, the money did not end up in the accounts of the officials, so right now it is missing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It is too early to conclude anyone is innocent because [Georgina Opoku Amankwah] was in charge of the Endowment Fund and [Asamoah] was the auditor at the time. In a few\u00a0days, we\u2019ll make our determinations.”<\/p>\n
According to him, there have been claims that the money from the Endowment Fund was used for some projects for the EC, but\u00a0he said no documents have been provided to prove this claim.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s been suggested that the money was used for some work for the EC. If that\u2019s the case, they should bring receipts and documents to prove it. We haven\u2019t got any such documents from them. Without those documents, we\u2019ll continue to pursue them. With\u00a0time, we will pass the information on to the Attorney General to pursue the matter in court.”<\/p>\n
K. K. Amoah also clarified that the officials under investigation were still on leave and had not been interdicted.<\/p>\n
‘Officials assisting investigations’<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Head of Communications at the EC, Eric Kofi Dzakpasu, stated in July that the three officials proceeded on leave in order to protect the integrity of investigations by EOCO<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I know is that, EOCO is investigating matters related to staff endowment fund where we have some gap in the deposits which must be paid to the staff from the deductions of the staff. As a result of which EOCO has started investigations and all persons who are related to the issue have been called for questioning\u2026 The commission is fully cooperating with EOCO as far as this investigation is concerned,\u201d he\u00a0said<\/p>\n
A letter,\u00a0written to the Chair of the EC, Charlotte Osei, dated July 4th, 2017 from EOCO, said \u201cthe suspects are assisting in investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n
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