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A police officer who allegedly collected 70,000 GH from a Chinese national on the pretext of dropping a case investigated by the Economic and Organized Crime Bureau (ECEO) appeared in a circuit court in Accra.
Cyril Lumor Frank, dismissed from the Ghana Police Service for misconduct, was on the dock along with two others.
Frank and his accomplices Mark Fuakye, an employee of First Atlantic Bank and Prosper Kwashie Sossie of Energy Bank Ghana Limited, allegedly emulated Charles Ofori, one of the EOCO officials, to defraud the Chinese.
Frank and his accomplice are jointly accused of conspiracy.
Frank has also been charged with fraud, money laundering and identity theft.
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Their pleas have not been retained and will reappear on February 25th.
The court chaired by Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye admitted the defendants to pay bail of 70,000 GH with two bonds each. The sureties must have a paid professional activity and must not earn less than 1500 GH.
The court ordered the defendants to report to EOCO from Monday to Friday morning. He further instructed the prosecution to put order in their house.
The prosecution recounted that the defendants had imitated Charles Ofori, an EOCO officer, to swindle Jianhua Chen, a Chinese, for a total of 70,000 GH.
According to the prosecution, the three defendants had received 65,000 GH earlier earlier and shared it with each other. On February 6th of this year, Frank was arrested when he went to get the 5,000 GH balance.
The prosecution said preliminary investigations had revealed that the three defendants had told Jianhua Chen that they could help stop an investigation by EOCO into its activities.
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