Cecilia Dapaah, the former Sanitation Minister says the Office of the Special Prosecutor claims that she is engaged in the real estate business under pseudo names is misleading.

She also denied the OSP accusation that she keeps receiving funds from her late brother’s bank accounts.

Madam Dapaah made these statements in an affidavit filed in opposition to the request for confirmation of Cecilia Dapaah’s re-seized GHC 2.83 million and re-frozen bank accounts.

Following a court judgment that rejected a similar application, the Office of the Special Prosecutor made the latest application. In support of its claim that the money stolen from Cecilia Dapaah’s residence and the money in her bank accounts are tainted assets in this most recent application, the OSP offered a variety of justifications.

The OSP asserted that the former Sanitation Minister indicated that some of the money was revenues from a cosmetic company she established called Demacare Cosmetics in relation to the money that had been repossessed. However, the anti-corruption organization raised a query about the assertion.

Madam Cecilia Dapaah denied such claims.

“The first respondent also claimed in Exhibit “OSP5” that part of the discovered cash in cedis discovered by the OSP in said residence was proceeds from the sale of her Dermacare Cosmetics business in 2003, which she kept in her house. This heightened the suspicion of the authorized officers of the OSP since the discovered cedi currency notes are in the new cedi denominations introduced in July 2007 and they were not in existence in 2003 when the alleged sale of Demacare Cosmetics was purportedly completed in 2003.’ The OSP said.

Cecilia Dapaah further refuted assertions made by the Special Prosecutor’s office that part of the money was $590,000 of the $1 million allegedly stolen from her residence, for which eight people are facing criminal charges.