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Crime & Punishment of Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Source: GNA

Farmer Defrauds trader at Atwima Sepaase

Nkawie (Ash) Feb 7, GNA- A fourty-nine-year-old farmer, Nana Annin Asumah of Sepaase in the Atwima Nwabiagya District has been committed to a bail of GH¢200,000.00 with a surety by the Nkawie Circuit Court for defrauding Madam Afua Aniwaa of Patasi, a suburb of Kumasi. The accused pleaded not guilty and would re-appear in court on February 20, 2012.

Giving the facts of the case, Police Chief Inspector Philip Jagri told the court presided over by Justice Frank Owusu Afriyie that the complainant was a trader who met the accused through a friend. Prosecution said accused who claimed to be a family head sold to the complainant a piece of plot with accompanying allocation documents at a total cost of GH¢10,000.00. Pol'