[2014]DLHC12146 • June 4, 2014 • High Court
THE REPUBLIC vs. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EOCO & 2 ORS EX-PARTE: CHRISTOPHER ANIMAKO
The applicant, Mr. Christopher Animako, sought to have the respondents, including the Executive Director of EOCO and others, committed for contempt of court. The applicant alleged that despite a High Court order to defreeze his bank account, the 3rd respondent personally collected GH¢68,000 from him and that he was subjected to interrogation and prosecution for money laundering at the Circuit Court. The applicant contended that these actions were attempts to circumvent the High Court's order and undermine its authority.
read moreRULING The applicant herein, Mr. Christopher Animako has called upon this Court to commit the respondents-: The Executive Director of EOCO, Mr. Mortey Akpadzi, Mr. Edward Cudjoe, Acting Head of Legal, EOCO, and Mr. Charles Wilcox Ofori, a State Attorney at the Legal Department of EOCO. Their fault, to applicant was that, this Court, having ordered a defreeze of his account, the 3rd respondent – Mr. Charles Wilcox Ofori personally collected an amount of Sixty Eight Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢68,000.00) from him. The applicant further stated, he was sent to the office of Edward Cudjoe and subjected to extensive interrogation after which he was granted bail. The bail, though granted him, the amount of Sixty-Eight Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢68,000.00) was not handed over to him. On the 31st March 2014, with his counsel at the EOCO Offices, to enquire why the money was seized, he was rather “again arrested whisked to the Circuit Court, arraigned before the Court and prosecuted fo...