A young who has been impersonating a medical doctor and defrauding individuals by promising fake international travel opportunities in the Kasoa area has been arrested by the police.
The police in a statement named the suspect as Fredrick Papa Kow-Assifuah.
He was arrested on June 6, 2025, during an intelligence-led operation at Kasoa Crispo City in the Central Region.Â
At the time of the arrest, he was found wearing a white lab coat and a stethoscope and was planning to meet another victim.
The police in a press statement said medical items including two stethoscopes, three intravenous (IV) drips, five syringes, two sample bottles, one roll of plaster, six bottles of vaccines and a cash amounting to GH¢8,500 have been retrieved from the suspect.
Kow-Assifuah is said to have admitted to impersonating a doctor at United Brain Hospital during police interrogation and confessed to luring women online into romantic relationships to extort money for fake travel deals.
He is in custody assisting investigations and will be arraigned before court according to the police.
