The Bank of Ghana and Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) will investigate suspected cases of financial crime.
A statement from the BOG said "As part of its long-standing cooperation with law enforcement Agencies, Bank of Ghana (BoG) from time to time requests the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to investigate specific cases of suspected financial crimes and to liaise with the appropriate agencies for possible prosecution of suspected persons. Pursuant to this, a number of referrals have been made by BoG to EOCO for investigations, as summarised below."
"Following an emerging trend observed by the BoG over the last few years, BoG has since October 2020 submitted five (5) separate requests to EOCO for investigations into claims of persons (individuals, businesses, and law firms acting on behalf of clients) who have persistently made claims on the BoG to the effect that certain large sums of money purportedly remitted to them by foreign counterparties through the banking system have been withheld by BoG.
These claimants often attached documentation alleged to be messaging from the SWIFT international funds transfer system, as proof of the receipt and retention of their funds by BoG. Following BoG’s preliminary investigations which have shown that these claims are fake, BoG has referred such matters to EOCO for further investigation. EOCO has made significant progress in these investigations and has initiated prosecution in some of these cases, while investigations in other cases continue."