Court remands two in custody over alleged fraud

By
Ishmael Adams / Sarah Frimpong, GNA
    

Kumasi, Sept. 12, GNA – Two persons accused of
defrauding a financial institution in Kumasi of an amount GH¢15, 000.00, have
been remanded into prison custody by a Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by
Justice Ekow Mensah.

Seth Kofi Andoh, taxi driver and Dominic Attah
Kusi, a sales executive of the Golden Pride Savings and Loans Limited, pleaded
not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit crime, forgery of official
document, possession of forged document and defrauding by false pretence.

They would appear in court again on October
10.

A third accomplice, Frank Mensah is however at
large.

Accused persons were said to have conspired
with Mensah (now on the run), to use fake documents to secure a loan from the
Golden Pride Savings and loans Limited, a financial Institution at Adum in
Kumasi. 

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr.
Felix Akowuah, prosecuting told the Court that, the complainant in the case is
James Ofori Ankomah, the Head and Controller of loans at Golden Pride Saving
and Loans Limited.

He said in June this year Andoh, told Frank,
the fugitive accomplice, who is a friend, to assist him secure a bank loan to
fix his broken-down taxi.

Since Andoh was not a public service worker,
which according to Frank made it impossible to access the loan, Frank is said
to have connived with Kusi his sales executive friend, to obtain a photocopied
pay slip and passport belonging to a Ghana National Fire staff, to facilitate
the loan, prosecution said.

On June 8, 2018, with the help of Kusi, all
the due processes of acquiring the loan was followed, after Kusi had provided
them with photocopies of documents, bearing the name of one Salifu Stephen, the
Court heard.

The loan, in the sum of GH¢15,000.00, was then
approved and granted. This was shared among the three, according to
prosecution. 

During the month of July 2018, however, the
complainant detected the deal and reported the matter to the police.

The accused persons were then arrested and
during the investigations, Andoh mentioned Kusi as the one who gave the
photocopied Ghanaian passport and the pays slip to him.

They were then charged and arraigned.

GNA

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