{"id":12079,"date":"2025-07-31T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12079"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:28:36","slug":"ofori-attas-bid-to-quash-arrest-warrant-dismisses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=12079","title":{"rendered":"Ofori Atta’s bid to quash arrest warrant dismisses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The High Court has thrown out an application filed by former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, seeking to quash an arrest warrant issued by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).<\/p>\n

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  1. Mr. Ofori-Atta had asked the court to declare the warrant unlawful and to strike out all related enforcement actions, including the request for an Interpol Red Notice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    His legal team argued that the OSP acted outside its mandate and procedural bounds in securing the arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

    But in a ruling delivered on Thursday, the court held that the application lacked merit. The presiding judge dismissed it in its entirety, affirming the validity of the OSP\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

    The decision is the latest development in an ongoing standoff between the former minister and the anti-corruption agency.<\/p>\n

    The OSP has been investigating Mr. Ofori-Atta over multiple allegations relating to his time in office, including procurement irregularities and the management of state funds.<\/p>\n

    Mr. Ofori-Atta has not appeared in person before the OSP despite repeated invitations and deadlines, citing medical treatment abroad.<\/p>\n

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    The OSP subsequently declared him a wanted person in June and began the process to involve international law enforcement through\u00a0Interpol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The High Court has thrown out an application filed by former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, seeking to quash an arrest warrant issued by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). Mr. Ofori-Atta had asked the court to declare the warrant unlawful and to strike out all related enforcement actions, including the request for an Interpol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3718],"tags":[3759],"class_list":["post-12079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-legal","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12083,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions\/12083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}