{"id":745212,"date":"2022-01-11T19:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/mobile-money-vendor-jailed-for-stealing\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:55:44","slug":"mobile-money-vendor-jailed-for-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/mobile-money-vendor-jailed-for-stealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Money vendor jailed for stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/37899637.295.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect was convicted for stealing his employer's money\" title=\"The suspect was convicted for stealing his employer's money\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The suspect was convicted for stealing his employer&#8217;s money<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">An Adenta Circuit Court has sentenced a Mobile Money vendor to 12 months imprisonment for stealing his employer\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Emmanuel is said to have transferred GHC18, 000 out of GHC30, 000 from his employer\u2019s phone into his mobile money account.<\/p>\n<p>Charged with stealing, Emmanuel pleaded guilty with an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, noted that his explanation confirmed his plea of guilt.<\/p>\n<p>The court presided over by Mrs. Sedinam Awo Balokah, convicted the accused person on his plea.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting Chief Inspector Maxwell Lanyo narrated that the complainant, Theophilus Ansah, was a trader residing at Oyibi, Accra, whiles Emmanuel Ibrahim resided at Otanor-Adjiriganor, near East Legon.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Lanyo said Ibrahim oversaw the complainant\u2019s mobile money joint at East Legon, near the A and C Mall. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecution said on July 3, last year, Ibrahim stole the phone he had been working with and belonging to the complainant containing cash in the sum of GHC30,000.<\/p>\n<p>It said later the complainant detected that GHC18, 000 had been transferred from the phone to Ibrahim\u2019s mobile wallet.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution said the complainant quickly alerted MTN Ghana Limited and Ibrahim\u2019s mobile account was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>It said but before the account was blocked, Ibrahim had already withdrawn GHC18, 000 leaving a balance of GHC 12,000.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution said on August 1, last year, the complainant reported the matter to the Police and on January 3, this year, Ibrahim was nabbed by the Police at his hideout at Adjiriganor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect was convicted for stealing his employer&#8217;s money An Adenta Circuit Court has sentenced a Mobile Money vendor to 12 months imprisonment for stealing his employer\u2019s money. Ibrahim Emmanuel is said to have transferred GHC18, 000 out of GHC30, 000 from his employer\u2019s phone into his mobile money account. Charged with stealing, Emmanuel pleaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}