EDWARD MACAULEY vs. EOCO, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NACOB [2013]DLHC12079

Date	2013-07-24
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FTRM 227/13
Citation No.	[2013]DLHC12079

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE JOHN AJET-NASAM

OWUSU FORDWOUH FOR APPLICANT

DIANA ADU-ANANE FOR 1ST RESPONDENT

[2013]DLHC12079
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;EDWARD MACAULEY<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EOCO,
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NACOB<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

SUIT NO. FTRM 227/13&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 24TH&nbsp;JULY
2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS
LORDSHIP JUSTICE JOHN AJET-NASAM<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>Under
Section 31(1)of Act 804, the Economic and Organized Crime Office Act 2010, it
provides as following:<o:p></o:p>31(1)
“A person who claims an interest in property seized under this Act shall apply
to the Court within thirty days after the date of seizure for an order that the
property be returned to that person.<o:p></o:p>(2)
If the Court is satisfied that,<o:p></o:p>a.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
person is entitled to possession of the property<o:p></o:p>b.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
property is not tainted property and<o:p></o:p>c.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
person in respect of whose charge, proposed charge or conviction the seized of
the property was made has no interest in the property to the applicant.”<o:p></o:p>In
this instant case the applicant is invoking this section amongst others to have
his property seized on the 14th February 2013 be returned to him.
Edward Macauley is presently being held in a Federal Correction Institution,
Ford Dix, New Jersey,USA. An affidavit was sworn on his behalf by one Edward Macauley
Junior. He deposed in paragraph 9 and 10:<o:p></o:p>jh9)
That the property the subject matter of the seizure was acquired by my father
in the year 2004.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(1</main>