Court remands farmer over fraud

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By Charles Tawiah,
GNA
         

Nkawie, (Ash), Jan.
23, GNA – The Nkawie Circuit Court has remanded into police custody, a
52-year-old farmer who allegedly defrauded a cocoa purchasing clerk at
Nerebehi, in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality.

Amaning Kwarteng
pleaded guilty to the charge and would make his next appearance in Court on February
07, this year.

Police Inspector
Ruth Gborson, prosecuting, told the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson
Abbey that, the complainant was the District Manager of the Eliho Touton
Company, a cocoa processing company, while the accused was cocoa farmer.

She said on December
07 last year, the accused collected an amount of GHc 5,150.00, from the
complainant and promised to supply 10 bags of cocoa beans to him.

The prosecution said
after collecting the money, the accused went into hiding but the complainant
who had mounted a search for him got information of his whereabouts and
informed the police.

She said he was
arrested and after investigations, the police charged him with the offence and
brought him before the Court.

GNA