Lawyers for former National Petroleum Authority (NPA) Chief Executive Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid have pushed back against claims by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) that assets valued at more than GHC100 million linked to him have been seized.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, November 5, legal representatives from Hay & Partners described the OSP’s publication as “false, misleading, and injurious,” insisting no property belonging to Dr Abdul-Hamid has been identified or confiscated.
“As counsel for Dr Abdul-Hamid, we wish to place on record, emphatically and without ambiguity, that no assets or businesses belonging to or associated with our client have been identified, traced, or seized by the OSP,” the statement said.
“Our client owns no such assets, directly or indirectly, and no property worth the stated amount exists anywhere in connection with him.”
The lawyers also argued that the OSP’s own amended charge sheet “lists five counts of alleged offences against our client” but “not even one of those charges mentions, refers to, or concerns any asset or business purportedly owned by Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid.”
They accused the OSP of engaging in “public theatrics and false reportage,” urging the office to “devote its energies to prosecutorial diligence rather than media sensationalism.”
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