The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has noted that the now dismissed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) Adjenim Boateng Adjei is being referred to the Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO) for further investigations into possible money laundering.
The commission, in its report made public yesterday, revealed that Mr Adjenim Boateng Adjei had large amounts of money passing through his accounts. But he was unable to explain satisfactorily how he came by these amounts. On the strength of that, the commission has decided to refer the matter to EOCO.
“As noted above, the Commission came across evidence of inordinately large volumes of cash passing through the Bank Accounts of the Respondent far in excess of his known income, and for which he could not provide satisfactory explanation (unexplained wealth). Besides the excessive nature of the volumes of cash, the pattern of the deposits and withdrawals also raised suspicions about the nature of the transactions.
Accordingly the Commission is referring the suspicious transactions in the Respondent’s Bank Accounts to the Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO) for further investigation under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 (749) as amended,” the report said.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo sacked Mr Adjei yesterday following the recommendations of the commission.
Mr Adjei was initially suspended by the President following revelations in a documentary by investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni that he was involved in the sale of Government contracts through a company he had established.
