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K.K. Amoah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) K.K. Amoah has parried the contents of a video which presents him in bad light.<\/p>\n

He said one Kevin Ekow Taylor, the origina"},"modified":"2019-07-26T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T18:09:18","slug":"former-eoco-boss-parries-untruths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/26\/former-eoco-boss-parries-untruths\/","title":{"rendered":"Former EOCO Boss Parries \u2018Untruths\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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K.K. Amoah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) K.K. Amoah has parried the contents of a video which presents him in bad light.<\/p>\n

He said one Kevin Ekow Taylor, the originator of the video, made wild, baseless and defamatory allegations against him on his \u2018With All Due Respect\u2019 platform.<\/p>\n

The falsehood, according to the former EOCO boss, started with the allegation that Lawyer Ace Anan Ankomah is his nephew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an absolute lie. There is neither family nor blood relations between us, except that we are from the same town. Lawyer Ankomah never referred any case, including that of Horizon, to me or EOCO during my stewardship,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Charles Darko<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said on or about 16th<\/sup> February, 2018, one Charles Darko was arrested for money laundering following a report from the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) \u00a0which, contrary to Kevin Taylor\u2019s falsehoods, is an independent statutory body and not a part of EOCO.<\/p>\n

FIC had frozen the account into which certain monies had been received. And Charles Darko claimed the money he had received was from a company called Just Gold, to purchase houses from him, the former EOCO boss explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not convinced and, therefore, charged him with money laundering and tax evasion. The High Court convicted him of tax evasion but acquitted him of money laundering because, as the court held, there was no predicate offence,\u201d he said in the statement, adding \u201cupon his acquittal, however, he applied to the court to remove the FIC\u2019s freezing order over his account.\u201d<\/p>\n

No Money Paid<\/strong><\/p>\n

K.K.Amoah said \u201cno $600,000 or any part of it was paid to me. I am also not aware that any such payment was made to anyone in EOCO. Also, the allegation that it was EOCO that introduced Charles Darko to lawyer Augustines Obuor is false. It was in the course of investigations that it emerged that lawyer Obuor had been Charles Darko\u2019s lawyer for several years before that arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat arrest and prosecution had nothing to do with NAM 1 or Menzgold. There was no connection between them at that time. And the name Horizon did not even come up in the course of that matter,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

BoG, EOCO Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

After about three meetings held between Bank of Ghana (BoG) and EOCO at EOCO head office during which the BoG complained about the activities of certain companies including Menzgold for taking deposits without licence, he recalled \u201cEOCO commenced investigations into those companies. On or about 10th<\/sup> August 2018, EOCO arrested NAM 1 and about four other people for operating deposit-taking businesses without a licence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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