EOCO boss promises “We will recover all GYEEDA monies’’

The Economic and Organized Crime Organization (EOCO) has given the strongest indication that it will recover all monies owed the state by corrupt persons named in the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) report.

“… If we arrive at anybody who has taken any public funds without doing any work or without going through the proper procedure we will take steps and retrieve those monies; I can assure we are working very actively and any wrong doing that is found will be dealt with’’, EOCO Boss, Mortey Akpadzi told Citi News.

According to him “over thirty people have been interviewed and some are on bail’’. Mr. Akpadzi also revealed that EOCO has submitted two dockets to the Attorney General for review and further prosecution.

“If there is malfeasance, if any government have been unlawfully used or taken , I can assure you that it will be dealt with and people will have to pay back,’’ he reiterated.

He stressed that besides retrieving the monies from the culprits, they will be also be prosecuted. “Anybody involved; you may be holding a contract but if the evidence confirms that it was a contrived contract just to defraud the state; that is also a crime,’’ he said.

President John Mahama in July tasked EOCO to investigate the alleged criminal conducts and financial malfeasance of some persons indicted by the GYEEDA report.

By : Evans Effah

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