THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZED CRIME OFFICE vs. DANIEL DUKU AND JOSEPH AMANKWAH DUKU [2020]DLHC10458

THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZED CRIME OFFICE vs. DANIEL DUKU AND... [2020]DLHC10458

Date	2020-08-18
Suit No.	SUIT NO. MSFT/083/2019
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC10458

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAH ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.)

MR. ABU ISSAH WITH MR. EMMANUEL DZAKPATA FOR THE APPLICANT PRESENT

LAWYERS FOR THE RESPONDENT ABSENT

[2020]DLHC10458
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >IN THE MATTER OF THE ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZED<o:p></o:p>CRIME OFFICE ACT, 2010 (ACT 804)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;AND<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION TO DISCHARGE THE FREEZING ORDER PURSUANT
TO SECTION 38(1)(a)(i) OF THE ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZED CRIME OFFICE ACT, 2010
(ACT 804)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZED CRIME OFFICE<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DANIEL DUKU AND JOSEPH AMANKWAH DUKU<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;">

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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. MSFT/083/2019 &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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DATE:18TH
AUGUST 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>MR. ABU ISSAH WITH MR. EMMANUEL DZAKPATA FOR
THE APPLICANT PRESENT<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;">

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ABSENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAH ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.)<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;">

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</div>&nbsp;This is a Ruling on an application brought
for and on behalf of the Executive Director Economic and Organised Crime Office
(hereafter referred to as “the Applicant”. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The antecedents of the application are that &nbsp;on the 10th day of August, 2020 the
Applicant herein filed a Motion Notice for the discharge of the Consolidated
Bank Ghana Ltd Bank Account numbered 0773415100001
belonging to the within-named 2nd Respondent.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;In essence the basis for the application is
grounded in paragraph 20 of the affidavit in support regarding investigation
and trial of the 1st Respondent who is the erstwhile Chief Executive
Officer of the Venture Capital Trust Fund. The 2nd Respondent is the
son of the 1st Respondent and a customer of the Consolidated Bank
Ghana Limited with account numbers
0773415100001 and 100006636793.
<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Applicant says that on the 10th
day of July, 2020 the High Court Accra (Land Division 1) presided over by His
Lordship Justice Anthony Oppong, Appeal Court Judge Sitting as Additional High
Court Judge in Suit No. CR/0411/2019, &nbsp;based an Agreement&nbsp; (hereafter referred to as “the Agreement”)
dated the 19th day of June, 2020 between the Republic and the 1st,
3rd and 5th Accused persons pursuant to Section 35 of the
Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459),&nbsp; ordered that
the total amount contained in Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited accounts numbered
0773415100001 and 100006636793 belonging to the 2nd Respondent be
discharged and same transferred into Venture
Capital Trust Fund (VCTF) Bank Account numbered 1050000349619 domiciled in
the RIDGE TOWERS Branch of the FIDELITY
BANK.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The terms of the Agreement are quite clear
and self-explanatory except for one (1.2.1.2) which gave rise to a query necessitating
the filing of a supplementary affidavit and which is set out hereunder. <o:p></o:p>