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BOG FORWARDS SUSPECTED FINANCIAL CRIME CASES TO EOCO FOR INVESTIGATIONS

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The Bank of Ghana has sent a number of suspected cases of money related wrongdoing to the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) for examinations.

They incorporate suspicious ask to the Central Bank for installment of huge wholes of internal settlements that has been withheld by the regulator and demands by receivers for examinations into dead Investment funds and Advances Companies and Microfinance educate.

Within the to begin with case, the Central Bank said taking after an developing slant that it has watched over the last few a long time, it has since October 2020 submitted five isolated demands to EOCO for examinations into claims of people (individuals, businesses, and law firms acting on sake of clients) who have determinedly made claims on the Lowland to the impact that certain huge entireties of cash purportedly transmitted to them by remote counterparties through the keeping money framework have been withheld by Marsh.

“These claimants regularly connected documentation charged to be messaging from the Quick worldwide stores exchange framework, as confirmation of the receipt and maintenance of their stores by Marsh”. It clarified. “Taking after Marsh’s preliminary examinations which have appeared that these claims are fake, Marsh has alluded such things to EOCO for assist examination. EOCO has made critical advance in these examinations and has started arraignment in a few of these cases, whereas examinations in other cases continue”, it included.

On the moment case, the Bank of Ghana said, in its open takes note in 2019 declaring the disavowal licences of certain outdated Investment funds and Advances Companies, Fund Houses, and Microfinance Educate, it cited a number of potentially criminal activities on the portion of these educate and their shareholders, executives or administration, as the case may be.

“Taking after encourage examinations into the disappointment of these educate by the Receivers named by Lowland, these cases were alluded to EOCO for counsel. EOCO has conducted free examinations into a number of these cases as recorded underneath and has made recommendations to the Lawyer Common’s Division for thought and conceivable indictment”, it pointed out.

The firms incorporate Perfect Fund, GN Investment funds and Credits, CDH Reserve funds and Credits, Midland Reserve funds and Advances, Bequest Capital Reserve funds and Credits, FirsTrust Investment funds and Advances, Express Investment funds and Advances, IFS Reserve funds and Credits, uniCredit Investment funds and Advances and Dream Back Company. Others are Goldman Capital Microfinance, Dwadifo Adanfo Microfinance, CIG Microfinance, Adom Sika Microfinance, Nationwide Microfinance, Cypress Microfinance, Jorbies Microfinance, DPF Microfinance and FTS Capital Microfinance.

The Central Bank encourage specified that “EOCO continues to work with the Lawyer Common’s Division towards rapid prosecutions of people suspected to have been complicit within the disappointments of these educate.”

“Meanwhile, EOCO has solidified and/or impounded a few assets of such people to assist with reimbursements of the claimants of the dead teach”.



It concluded, saying, the Central Bank will continue to develop its collaboration with EOCO and other law requirement Offices within the nation, to assist advance monetary keenness and believe and certainty in our managing an account framework.

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