The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) states:How dirty money flows into Dubai real estate“” is not intended to divert the nation’s attention from the socio-economic challenges facing Ghana.
According to an investigative report released in May 2024, former member of the House of Representatives, Inusa Husseini, Tamale Centralowns real estate in Dubai worth $7.235 million, including several properties in prime locations. Palm Jumeirah development.
Husseini served as Minister of Lands and Natural Resources and Minister of Roads and Highways under the Mahama administration.
The OCCRP investigation also provided details of a Dubai apartment owned by Moses Assaga, a former Nabdam member of parliament and minister of state at the Ministry of Finance, valued at just over $133,000. Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Agency.
Financial secrecy and money laundering
The report, titled “How Dirty Money Lives in Dubai Real Estate”, provides information on 20 apartments in six upmarket areas of Dubai that are linked to Husseini.
The report said Dubai is an attractive haven for people looking to launder ill-gotten gains because few questions are asked about the source of their wealth, financial transactions can be kept secret, property taxes are minimal and the emirate is politically stable.
The OCCRP report also names two other Ghanaians: Mr Anthony Alfred Benin, a former Supreme Court judge and judge of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, and Mr Joseph Kwaku Asamoah, a former Director of Finance at the Electoral Commission of Ghana who co-owns the two properties.
The former president’s office later said the report was a political ploy to divert public attention from serious issues facing Ghana.
But Beauregard Tromp, Africa editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, speaking with President Benjamin Ofei-Addo on the Assured Breakfast Show on Friday (June 28), said, “We are not trying or intending to distract people.”
Listen to Beauregard Tromp in the audio clip attached below.
Check out the full interview in the attached video clip below.
Reporting by reporter Fred Zakpata in Accra
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