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Crime & Punishment of Monday, June 10, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-06-10
He was released on bail of an amount of 20,000 GHC with a surety
Anthony Frimpong Asare, a former BA employee at Barclays Bank Ghana Limited, appeared in court for a GH ¢ 150,000 fraud.
The 33-year-old banker, who was head of the bank's Adum branch in Kumasi, faces four counts of counterfeiting, including the alleged falsification of the signature of Bank Relations Manager Elvis Boapeah.
A Kumasi court of first instance awarded him a deposit of 20,000 GH ¢, with a surety. It must reappear on June 25, 2019.
Anthony Frimpong Asare was arrested on October 17, 2018 after Barclays Bank formally filed a complaint with the Manhyia Divisional Command police.
In presenting the facts, the prosecutor, Inspector N Kwakye, told the court that the plaintiffs, Owusu Appiah Kubi and Elvis Boapeah, were respectively head of forensic investigations and head of bank relations.
According to him, a client of the bank, a Regina Kumi, asked for a loan at the bank last August, adding that the request had been refused on the grounds that she was working on her own account.
The prosecution stated that the accused, who was then primarily responsible for the bank's Adum branch, visited Regina Kumi, Chief Executive Officer of Multi Trust Lending Financial Service, at his office on September 24, 2018. .
Insp. Kwakye said Frimpong Asare had said in Regina that he could facilitate the loan for her and had adopted an elaborate scheme.
The accused took the original of Regina Kumi's marriage certificate and voter ID card and changed the name of the woman in Regina Owusu as well as the profession on the marriage certificate as a physician and not as a businesswoman.
The prosecutor revealed that the accused had also published in the Official Journal the client's document in which she read Ms. Regina Owusu, a physician working for Madona Health Services.
Inspector Kwakye testified that the defendant also falsified information in the bank's system to match the false document, stating that the client had worked as a surgeon at the said health center for eight years and had received 11,825, GH ¢.
The accused again prepared a pay slip for the plan and presented it to the bank.
On September 26, 2018, the accused, who was at the bank's direct sales center, was alleged to have secured a GH ¢ 150,000 loan facility and credited the Regina account.
The bank later discovered that Regina, whose loan application had been denied, had been credited with this amount.
The case was referred to the forensic investigation department, whose preliminary investigation revealed the fraud perpetrated on the bank, which led to his arrest.
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