The Ghana Police Service has interdicted three personnel for allegedly aiding a 46-year-old Shipping Consultant, Owen Kwame Frempong, alias “Darling Boy”, and 39 years old Evans Owuraku Amofa to defraud a businessman off US$29,000, equivalent to GH¢163,850.
The police personnel, whose names were stated in the document presented before the Accra Circuit Court by the Prosecutor, Inspector Eric Pobee, were said to have helped the alleged fraudsters.
Inspector Pobee told the court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh yesterday that the complainant in the case, whose name was also not stated, is into various businesses and the office located at Adjiriganor in Accra.
However, during the month of April 2020, the complainant and his boss needed a quantity of a chemical called Carbomer used for in the manufacturing of hand sanitiser.
The said complainant contacted a witness in the case to assist him with someone who can supply them with the supposed chemical. The witness also contacted Evans [first accused person (A1)] and he promised he could be of help.
The witness, in facilitating, introduced Evans, the complainant, and they met in the office of the complainant. Evans then told the complainant that he had contacted another person, Owen Kwame Frempong (A2), who had the chemical in the quantity they are requesting.
“A1 [Evans] left and later called [the] complainant to inform him the A2 [Owen] was ready with the chemical, so they should meet him at Prampram to pay and collect it,” he said.
As a result, on May 5, 2020, the complainant and his boss, in a company of other persons, met with Evans at a certain spot at Prampram, as arranged, to pay for the chemical.
At Prampram, Evans called Owen to bring the chemical to them at the location, however, a lady delivered the Carbomer chemical in an ice chest at the Prampram location.
The complainant and his boss, after inspecting the chemical on the spot, paid US$29, 000, equivalent to GH¢163,850, to A1, who took leave of them, together with the lady, to meet A2 with the money.
However, he said while the complainant and his boss and others were also returning to Accra with the chemical, “…the complainant and the witnesses were arrested by police and the ice chest with its content seized from them. They were later released by the police.”
This made the complainant suspicious and he reported the issue to the Accra Regional Command, which led to the arrest of the accused person.
Inspector Pobee revealed that the chemical, during the course of investigation, was found to be fake.
The Inspector explained that the arrest of the complainant, together with others, was allegedly orchestrated by the accused persons, saying: “The accused persons rather arranged with three police officers, who are their friends, to seize the fake chemical from the complainant to avoid detection.”
According to the prosecutor, in the caution statements of the accused persons they admitted to the crime as being a scam, and promised to refund the amount but failed to honour it.
The accused persons have been arraigned before the court for the offences of conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretence, while the police officers in question have been interdicted and formal proceedings instituted into their conduct.
However, Owen, alias Darling Boy, collapsed while his defence counsel, Paul Abariga, was on his feet pleading with the court to grant him and Evans bail, and was rushed to the hospital.
Despite the drama of the collapse, the judge refused the bail and adjourned the case to September 30, 2020.
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