EOCO recovered GH¢8.2million for the state in 1st half of 2022 – Mid-Year Budget Review

Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has told Parliament that the COP Maame Tiwaa Addo Danquah-led Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) recovered almost GH¢9million for the state in the first of the Year 2022.

The Minister gave the update on the floor of parliament where he gave a breakdown of key sector activities over the past few months. Under the Attorney Generals Department, Mr. Ofori-Atta said EOCO’s recoveries for the state came from direct and indirect recoveries from proceeds of crime as at the middle of the year.

“Mr. Speaker, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) recovered an amount of GH¢8.2 million, made up of GH¢5.8 million from direct recovery into 2022 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review 75 the Consolidated Fund and GH¢2.4 million from indirect recoveries to other institutions from the proceeds of crime as at the end of June 2022.” He said.

The EOCO has lately been in the new chasing SIM Box and other Fraudsters taking advantage of members of the Public at large. In April, EOCO arrested and is prosecuting 5 suspects in SIM Box Fraud nabbed in collaboration with the Ghana Association of Banks.

The modus operandi of the cyber fraudsters was obtaining a new SIM card from unsuspecting persons’ mobile service provider using the person’s registered phone number. They then get One Time Passwords (OTPs) and other alerts required to conduct financial transactions through the person’s bank account with the help of this new SIM.

This week EOCO again arrested one Sunny Anwamini (Alias Sunny Enyindah Anwamini also known as Apostle Sunny Chigeru) a Nigerian based in Ghana for alleged fraud.

According to a statement from the office of EOCO, the accused, between January 2017 and May 2022, used forged documents including an Export Declaration Form from the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to obtain various sums of money totaling Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($6,500,000) from one Mazen Farakh, the complainant, under the pretext of exporting teak wood from Ghana to him in Ukraine.

Sunny Anwamini’s action was in contravention of the law and has since been arrested and arraigned before the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court.

The judge in her ruling set the terms of bail at Twenty Million Ghana Cedis (GHc 20,000,000) with three (3) sureties, two (2) of whom must be justified.

Also, the accused has been asked to surrender his passport and other travelling documents and to report twice a week to the EOCO headquarters.

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