Three shop attendants and a mobile phone dealer, Kwabena Acheampong, have been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Rosemary Baah Torsu, for stealing and dishonestly receiving.
The shop attendants – Isaac Yeboah, Wilson Osei and Dennis Appiah Kubi – were reported to the police by their employer, Shadrack Otoo, and subsequently charged on two counts of stealing. The prosecutor in the case, Chief Inspector Gulliver Tenkorang, told the court yesterday that on November 10, 2020, at 7:30am, the complaint, after taking inventory of mobile phones at his Kwame Nkrumah Circle shop, where the three work, detected that about 963 pieces of assorted phones valued at GH¢107, 035 had been stolen.
He said the complainant highly suspected the senior shop attendant – Isaac Yeboah – and handed him over to the police.
However, during the initial interrogation, it came to light that Yeboah sometimes conspired with Osei and Appiah to sell some of the phones and share the proceeds equally among themselves without the knowledge of the complainant.
“A1 (Yeboah) further stated that he sold some unspecified number of mobile phones to A4 (Acheampong) and did not account for the proceeds to the complainant after the sales,” the prosecutor said.
He continued that A1, A2 and A3 admitted the offences in their caution statements to the police.
Acheampong, however, denied the offence of dishonestly receiving in his caution statement to the police, claiming that even though he purchased some phones from Yeboah and paid for same, never did it come to his attention that they were stolen goods.
C/Inspector Tenkorang stated that despite A4 claims that he did not know the phones he bought from Yeboah were stolen, the investigators did not agree with him.
He said the accused persons gave GH¢5,000.00 as part payment of the debt owed the complainant.
The prosecutor said after investigations, the accused persons were charged with the offences, as stated on the charge sheet, and arraigned before the court together with the exhibit – GH¢5,000.00.
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