19 Judicial Service staff have been sacked by the Judicial Council for their involvement in the judicial corruption scandal.
The affected staff are made up of court registrars and interpreters whose complicity was established in cases in which they took bribes to pervert justice, a statement signed by the Judicial Secretary Justice Alex Opoku Acheampong stated.
The statement noted that the decision to sack the Judicial Service staff was informed by recommendations by disciplinary committees constituted by the Chief Justice, Georgina Wood, to investigate the conduct of staff cited in the Anas Aremeyaw Anas bribery exposé petition.
According to the statement, 10 court registrars and messengers with various courts across the country have been dismissed while the court registrar at Teshie Nungua, the district court registrar at Kasoa, the principal interpreter at Madina and six others have been removed from office.
Meanwhile, five others have been reprimanded for accepting “thank-you gifts” while three people have been exonerated and restored.
Twenty judges and magistrates have already been sacked after being found guilty of bribery.
The dismissals come after a painstaking investigation into allegations of corruption in the judiciary.
Ace investigative Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in August last year unearthed deep seated corruption in the judiciary in which some judges were seen demanding bribes and sex to influence judgments in court cases.