Clearing Agent Swindled Of Over Two Hundred Thousand Cedis

A Clearing Agent, who did not play smart, has been swindled of his cash of Ghs241,000.00 in a sham currency printing deal.

King Joe Atani has been convinced by three fraudsters to give out the money under the pretext of using it to buy chemicals to wash what they claimed to be Chinese-made currency-papers into cedi denominations.

Michael Kota, Ben Aziz and their accomplice now on the run, had demonstrated to him how it worked to him and he fell for their trap.

The three had told him that a Chinese Company, contracted by the government to print the local currency, brought in a container of the currency-papers but they had returned to China and left the precious cargo in their care.

After tricking King Joe Atani to give them the cash, they never returned and that was when he realized that he had been duped.

He subsequently filed a formal report with the police. Kota and Aziz have now been arrested and criminally charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretense.

When the pair appeared before an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Afia Owusuaa Appiah they told the court that they are not guilty of any wrongdoing.

The circuit court granted Kota and Aziz bail in the sum of Ghs150,000.00 each with two sureties to be justified.

They were ordered to make their next court appearance on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Police Chief Inspector Gulliver Tenkorang told the court that the two together with their fugitive accomplice were introduced to Atani by one Abraham Tetteh as people engaged in the cryptocurrency business.

They managed to persuade him to meet them at Nungua and that was where they enticed him with the currency printing deal after they had washed what they alleged to be Chinese currency-paper entrusted to their care in cedi denominations.

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