The Wenchi District Court has remanded five suspected members of a mobile money fraud syndicate into police custody over their alleged involvement in a GH¢130,000 defrauding-by-false-pretence case in the Wenchi Municipality.
The court, presided over by His Worship Issah Abdul Wahab, ordered the suspects to be held following their arraignment on charges of conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretence.
According to a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Bono Regional Police Command, Chief Inspector Thomas Akeelah, the case stems from a complaint lodged by a 54-year-old agriculturalist, Sylvester Declercq Mensah, at Boadan in the Wenchi Municipality.
On April 24, 2025, the complainant reported that he had been swindled of GH¢130,000 by unknown persons.
Police said investigations commenced immediately after the report and culminated in the arrest of the suspects on January 18, 2026.
The arrested persons were identified as Edward Amuzu, also known as Kwame Tina, 26; Salifu Nurudeen, alias El-man, 25; John Pobi, known as Father, 37; Godfred Acquah, also called Kofi Biggs or Agabus, 25; and Maxwell Fosu Kyei, 31.
One other suspect is currently on the run.
The suspects were arrested at separate locations in Accra, Kasoa, Winneba and Assin Fosu, where they had reportedly gone into hiding.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the group allegedly operated as a syndicate, defrauding unsuspecting mobile money users across parts of the country.
Their modus operandi, police said, involved contacting victims and falsely claiming that money had been mistakenly transferred into their mobile money accounts and requesting assistance to reverse the transaction.
Further police investigations indicate that the syndicate has been in existence for nearly five years and may have defrauded several victims of large sums of money using similar tactics.
From Edmond Gyebi, Wenchi
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