New Patriotic Party (NPP) communicator Dennis Edward Miracles Aboagye has been released from the custody of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) after his arrest in connection with an ongoing matter.

His release follows hours of engagement with EOCO officials.

EOCO earlier confirmed the arrest of the former Executive Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD), Dennis Edward Miracles Aboagye, over allegations involving about GH¢55 million in public funds.

In a statement issued on Monday, July 13, the anti-graft agency said the arrest followed investigations stemming from a forensic audit of the IMCCoD Secretariat. The audit covered the period between August 2022 and February 2025.

According to EOCO, the probe began after the current Executive Secretary of the Secretariat petitioned the agency to investigate the audit findings. The forensic review and subsequent investigations allegedly uncovered evidence of the misappropriation, misapplication, diversion and theft of public funds during the period under review.

EOCO said Aboagye, alongside the Secretariat’s former accountant, Gerald Appiah, and other unnamed persons, is being investigated for offences including conspiracy to steal, stealing, using public office for profit, causing financial loss to the state, dissipation of public funds, defrauding by false pretences and money laundering.

The agency noted that although Aboagye had previously honoured invitations to assist investigators, new findings that emerged last week led to the decision to arrest him.

EOCO also revealed that it had placed Aboagye on a Stop Order approximately a week before his arrest to prevent him from leaving the country while investigations continued. However, investigators later discovered that he had already travelled outside Ghana.

Upon his return through Kotoka International Airport on Saturday, July 11, 2026, officers of the Ghana Immigration Service intercepted him and handed him over to EOCO the following day.

The development has attracted attention among political circles, with some NPP members describing the arrest as part of what they consider a broader pattern of investigations involving former government officials. Others have called for the process to be allowed to run its course without political interference.