Police investigate alleged corrupt court officials caught on Anas’ video
THE Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has commenced investigations into the alleged corrupt practices by some judicial personnel and police officers exposed by the undercover investigator journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
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Seven police officers, mostly police prosecutors who have so far been identified by their photographs in the video on the two-year investigation, are to face interdiction.
The Ghana Police Service has directed the divisional commanders of the said police personnel to direct them to report to the CID headquarters.
The police officers, including a police woman, were captured in the footage on the investigations, although not all of them were identified by their names and ranks.
So far, those identified are a prosecutor at the Tarkoradi court, Seth Ahelegbe; a prosecutor at the Somanya court, Inspector Anku, and a prosecutor at the Cape Coast Circuit Court, identified only as Apronti.
The rest are a prosecutor at the Mpraeso court, identified only as Bala; a CID person at the Cape Coast court, a woman whose name was not readily available; and a CID person at the Odumasi court, identified only as Appiah.
Pictures of suspects
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police, Mr Prosper K. Agblor, said the service had received the pictures of the police officers implicated in the video from the Judicial Secretary in a letter to the CID to take further action.
He said the CID had in turn written to the Judicial Service to release the judicial personnel involved in the corruption allegation.
Judges to report
He said the CID had since been given the green light from the Attorney General (AG) to initiate criminal investigations against the suspected criminals.
It is expected that the judges and other Judicial Service staff cited in the exposé would report to the CID headquarters today.
"We have received the pictures and some names of the police personnel involved and will follow the normal procedures depending on the evidence we get after we hear their side of the story," he said.
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