Former spokesperson for the Bawumia Campaign Team and New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Communications Officer hopeful, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢50 million with three sureties by the Economic and Organised Crime Office following his arrest over alleged financial irregularities linked to the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD).
Under the bail conditions, two of the three sureties are required to be justified.
Mr. Aboagye, who previously served as Executive Secretary of IMCCoD, is being investigated alongside other suspects over the alleged misappropriation, diversion and theft of public funds estimated at about GH¢55 million.
EOCO says the investigations involve alleged offences including conspiracy to steal, stealing, causing financial loss to the state, using public office for profit, money laundering and defrauding by false pretences.
Speaking to the media, counsel for Mr. Aboagye, Samuel Atta Akyea, said although his client had secured bail, meeting the conditions immediately could prove difficult.
According to him, the requirement for two justified sureties meant the legal team was unlikely to complete the process by Monday night but would work to satisfy the conditions as quickly as possible.
Mr. Aboagye was arrested by EOCO after arriving at the Accra International Airport on Saturday, July 11, where officers of the Ghana Immigration Service executed a stop order placed on him by the anti-graft agency.
EOCO said the stop order had been issued a week earlier as part of an operation to arrest him, but he had already travelled outside the country before it could be enforced.
He later accompanied investigators on a search operation connected to the ongoing probe.
Mr. Aboagye was arrested together with former IMCCoD accountant, Gerald Appiah, as investigations continue into the alleged financial and procurement-related irregularities.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
