{"id":217177,"date":"2025-12-18T22:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-attorney-general-ayine-reports-eoco-recovery-of-u-s-15-19-million-in-hidden-virtual-assets\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:37:52","slug":"ghana-attorney-general-ayine-reports-eoco-recovery-of-u-s-15-19-million-in-hidden-virtual-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-attorney-general-ayine-reports-eoco-recovery-of-u-s-15-19-million-in-hidden-virtual-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Attorney-General Ayine Reports Eoco Recovery of U.S.$15.19 Million in Hidden Virtual Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, has announced that the Economic and Organized Crime Office has successfully used Ghana&#8217;s local laws to freeze and recover virtual assets hidden in foreign jurisdictions, amounting to US$15,191,730.13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Dr Ayine made this known at the Government Accountability Series, where he briefed the media on what he described as a groundbreaking investigation into an international online investment fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">He explained that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180587.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, has announced that the Economic and Organized Crime Office has successfully used Ghana&#8217;s local laws to freeze and recover virtual assets hidden in foreign jurisdictions, amounting to US$15,191,730.13. Dr Ayine made this known at the Government Accountability Series, where he briefed the media on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9917,7873,53164,29317,4508,4509,9101,5118,257,9918,8327,254,53165,21659],"class_list":["post-217177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assets","tag-attorneygeneral","tag-ayine","tag-eoco","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hidden","tag-million","tag-news","tag-recovery","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-15-19","tag-virtual"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}