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THE REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT (FINANCIAL DIVISION) ACCRA EX-PARTE: XENON INVESTMENT CO. LTD FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE

(2016) JELR 68803 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  CIVIL MOTION NO: J5/46/2015  •  22 Mar 2016  •  Ghana

Coram
ANIN YEBOAH JSC (PRESIDING), BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC, AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC, BENIN JSC, AKAMBA JSC

Judgement

RULING

ANIN YEBOAH JSC

The applicant herein has invoked our supervisory jurisdiction to quash a ruling of an Accra High Court, [Financial Division], dated the 1st of June 2015. The uncontroverted facts of this application appear to be very simple. The applicant is a limited liability company operating in this country. It operated three accounts at the Tower branch of Fidelity Bank, Ghana Limited. On 27/02/2014, the interested party herein (The Financial Intelligence Centre), in a letter, directed the applicant’s bank to freeze all the accounts of the applicant.

As the interested party is statutorily conferred with such authority, the bank complied to freeze all the three accounts of the applicant. According to the interested party, in an affidavit sworn to by one Mary Shireen Ofosu, an analyst of the Financial Intelligence Centre, the applicant on 20/02/2014 received an amount of US$43,569.45 from one Sue Batth-Tait in Canada. Prior to the 20/02/2014 the same Sue Batth-Tait had remitted …

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