Policewoman loses GHC60,000 to fraudsters

Crime & Punishment of Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-02-12

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday remanded two persons for allegedly defrauding a policewoman of GH? 60,000 under the pretext of clearing her two vehicles from the port for her. Foster Afomale, Kwaku Agbetor, A Mason and Togolese, has been brought to the fore with the abetment of crime.

Their pleas have been taken over for further investigation. They will return to court on February 18.

Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Emmanuel Nyamekye told the Court presided over by Mrs Ruby Naa Aryeetey that the complainant, Florence Antwi is a police officer stationed at the Kotoka International Airport.

According to ASP Nyamekye, in October 2018, Madam Antwi received a text message from a Captain Richmond Tawiah, a Ghanaian military officer on a mission to the United States.

The Prosecution said the complainant and the alleged military officer became friends and exchanged messages and pictures.

He said the said man is one of those people.

The Prosecution said that it was the first time that it was possible to buy a car.

ASP Nyamekye said the alleged military man proceeding with a clearing agent, who the contact.

The suposed clearing agent asked the complainant to pay GH? 60,000 for that purpose.

He said that he was a member of the United States of America.

The prosecution said after the money was dropped, the phone lines of both "the soldier" and "the agent," were blocked and the cars too were not feeling to her.

ASP Nyamekye said when the 'pictures' of the soldier were used to trace him at Burma camp, the real Captain Randy Tawiah showed up in the scheme and revealed that they had fallen victim to such scams with the perpetrators his pictures.

He said investigations revealed that the pictures were downloaded from his Facebook wall to perpetuate the crime.

The prosecution said on January 14, this year, the suspects were arrested and in their statements, Afomale claimed he received a message when the money was deposited so he called Agbetor who came to Aflao to withdraw the money for him, for which he gave Agbetor Gh? 1,500 as his fee.

The Prosecution said Afomale sent the money via mobile money Daniel Dumenu, the brain behind the crime who is currently serving a jail-term at the Ankaful Prisons.