A 43 year old Fetish priest at Koforidua Zongo Richard Vormowor alias Nana Buame has been sentenced by Koforidua Circuit Court to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for defrauding people with counterfeit monies under the pretense of money doubling.
The prosecutor Chief Inspector Solomon Keelson said ,in recent time ,the Koforidua district command has been receiving many complaints of money doubling fraud hence on alert laying surveillance.
In April 5,2022 ,at 1:00pm ,whilst the complainant in the case Inspector Nelson sand others police personnel were on duty at Nkurakan Police checkpoint ,a Hyundai mini bus approached which the accused was aboard .
The vehicle was heading towards Koforidua township.
The vehicle was stopped by police and searched.
Seven(7)bundles of Ghc20 cedis notes and two(2) bundles of Ghc10 cedis notes suspected to be counterfeit belonging to the convict Richard Vormowor alias Nana Buame were retrieved .
He was was immediately arrested and brought to central police station.
The accused admitted that the monies were fake that, the bundles were made up of white papers he cut into sizes of the money notes embossed with the currency to look like original notes.
Investigation later revealed that the accused was on his way to defraud unsuspecting with his fraudulent acts of money doubling.
He was arraigned in court where he pleaded guilty to charge of preparation to commit crime to wit defrauding
He was sentenced on his own plea.
The judge ordered for the fake money notes to be burnt at the court premises.
Source : Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
