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By
Yussif Ibrahim, RNG
Kumasi, March 29, GNA
– The command of the Ashanti Regional Police arrested three people suspected of having
be part of a car fraud syndicate in the metropolis of Kumasi.
They are Osei
Abrokwah, 32, Daniel Kofi Yirenkyi, 35, and Emmanuel Kwasi Anane, 32.
Assistant
Godwin Ahianyo, Police Superintendent (ASP), Ashanti Regional Police
Public Relations Officer (PRO), told the media in Kumasi that the main targets
suspects, were automobile dealers.
He said their modus
the operation was to approach unsuspecting car salesmen and pretend to be interested in
the purchase of a particular vehicle after which they issue a check,
promising to ripen it in three working days
He said that they would do it
deliberately leave the vehicle documents at the dealership with the excuse
that they would come for the documents after the money has been cleared, which
is a fair ploy to win the trust of dealers.
ASP Ahianyo says the
suspects would then prepare a false document covering the vehicle, send it to
a potential buyer in a different garage and use it to take out a loan with the
the buyer, using the vehicle as a guarantee.
According to the ASP
Ahianyo, the suspect would then call the original owner of the vehicle and
inform him that the vehicle has been left in a particular garage and that he can go
for his vehicle because they are no longer interested.
The owner of
vehicle would go to the garage only to discover that the vehicle was used
as collateral to obtain a loan from the second victim.
The PRO said luck
the suspects escaped the suspects on March 26, when police gave information about their
the activities stopped them.
He said preliminary
police investigations revealed that they had cheated a large number of cars
dealers and others in the Kumasi metropolis and other parts of
country.
He said the suspects
have also been involved in the diversion of trucks of rice, beans, sugar and
cashew nut.
He called all
persons likely to have been victims of the suspect to report to the criminal court
Investigations Department (CID), to facilitate investigations.
GNA
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