GBC staff arrested for defrauding colleagues | criminality

A top security official from the Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation (GBC) security department was arrested by ministerial police for allegedly cheating his colleagues for GH ¢ 200,000.

The suspect identified as Solomon Charwey would have collected these funds under the pretext of selling them plots to Apollonia City, in the region of Kpone.

The suspect, Solomon Charwey, was arrested Monday morning while he was on duty, when one of his victims, who is not a worker at GBC, reported the case to the ministerial police.

About 15 other GBC staff members also besieged the police station to write statements after hearing the arrest of the suspect.

One of the victims who called Benjamin Squire Obodai told The Daily Guide that a suspect, Charwey, with whom he had been working for 20 years, had told him that in September 2018 he would have had a plot of land for sale in Apollonia. City near Tema.

"Charwey told me that one parcel cost 15,000 Cedis and that I had personally expressed my interest, I paid 5,000 GH ¢ in cash and my 2010 module of the same year. a Kia Serato bearing the registration number GT3227-10 for a parcel. "

He noted that his older sister had also paid a deposit of 20,000 GHC for two lands and had promised to pay the balance once the bill of sale had been issued.

The victim indicated that she had gone to the field and realized that it belonged to another person and had contacted the suspect to explain to him what was wrong with him. had pbaded, but no convincing explanation had emerged.

At one point, the victim stated that he reported the case to his HR manager for redress, and that he had discovered that other colleagues had been cheated by the suspect.

Another victim, whose name is retained, told the newspaper that she had paid a sum of 15,000 GH ¢ to the suspect four years ago.

In addition, a source at the police station of the ministries, when contacted, told the paper that several other victims had gone to the police station and were waiting to write their statements.

"We believe that several people were also cheated by suspects and that these people can also go to the station to help us in our investigation.

But we are preparing the suspect in court today, "he added.