Office of the Special Prosecutor

Prosecution, Assets Recovery & Management, Strategy,Research &Communications, Operations, Finance, The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is a specialised independent anti-corruption agency established by an act of the Parliament of Ghana to investigate and prosecute acts of corruption and corruption related offences.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is an independent specialised agency responsible for performing four (4) main functions.

The OSP is tasked with investigating specific cases of alleged or suspected corruption or corruption-related offences involving public officers and persons who have been entrusted with prominent public functions in Ghana or a foreign country or an international organization such as senior political party officials, government officials, judicial officials, military officials, a person who is or has been an executive in a foreign country of a state-owned company, a senior political party official in a foreign country, and an immediate family member or close associate of such a person, as well as persons in the private sector involved in the commission of such offences.

The OSP is mandated to prosecute offenders involved in the commission of corruption and corruption-related offences on the authority of the Attorney-General.

The multi-faceted mandate of the OSP set it out as a unique and specialised public institution performing The primary objective of the Office of the Special Prosecutor is to: To establish a society where corruption is prohibitively costly and decisively unattractive, fostering a culture of integrity and accountability in both public and private spheres through sustained and effective repression.