By
Charles Tawiah, GNA
Juaben (Ash), Oct.
22, GNA – Two mobile money vendors who conspired to steal money from the wallet
of subscribers, have been remanded into prison custody by the Juaben Circuit
Court.
Kenneth Asiedu, 30,
and Rebecca Baidoo, 25, are said to have transferred about GH¢10,000.00 from
the mobile accounts of some subscribers at Aboaso, and went to another vendor
at Mamponteng, to withdraw the monies from their own mobile wallets on their
mobile phones.
They pleaded not
guilty and would reappear before the Court presided over by Mr Yusif Osei
Asibey on November 11, this year.
Police Inspector Zakaria
Sulemana told the Court that the complainant was a mobile money vendor, who
operated at Aboaso, while the suspects also operated their mobile money
business at Mamponteng, both in the Kwabre East Municipality.
He said on September
19 this year at about 2000hours, the suspects went to the shop of the
complainant and pretended to withdraw money from their mobile wallets.
Inspector Sulemana
said several other customers had also come to the complainant’s shop to
withdraw money from their accounts.
The complainant was
thus, very busy attending to customers.
He said the suspects
clandestinely took some mobile phones which had been placed on the counter by
the complainant and transferred money from those phones into their mobile
wallet.
The prosecutor said
when the victims realized the theft in their mobile account, they quickly
informed the complainant and a report was made to the Mamponteng police.
He said the police
in the course of their investigations, arrested the two suspects and in their
caution statement, admitted the offence but said they had already transfer back
the money to their owners.
They were charged
and brought before the Court.
GNA
