Fraudster in Police custody

A Half-Assini magistrate court has returned a 66-year-old man into police custody for failing to meet his bail condition.

The accused, who gave his name as Isaac Blay, a retired civil servant but found to be Albert De-Lorde Ackah, is charged on seven counts of defrauding. He pleaded not guilty.

He was, on his first appearance on November 15 last year, granted 10,000 Ghana cedis bail with a surety to be justified but this has been reviewed on February 11, 2015 to 20,000 Ghana cedis with two sureties one to have residential address within the jurisdiction of the court.

He could not meet the bail bond, hence his return to custody.

Police Chief Inspector Emmanuel Kumi said the complainant was Mr Isaac M.K.Nyanzu, a mason at Tikobo Number One.

He said in July 2014, the accused told one Madam Justina Yankey of Tikobo Number One that he was recruiting people to work in a tomato company in Italy so she should get him some people.

The prosecutor said the woman got seven people in the area for the accused who collected a total of 3,050 Ghana cedis from them under the pretext of securing them visas and passports for the journey.

He said the accused gave them October 10 last year as the date for interview for the visas which he later postponed to the end of the month but that never materialised.

According to the prosecutor, the accused vanished from the area and was not heard from till November 17 last year when the complainant spotted him at Aiyinase in the Ellembre District on the same mission and caused his arrest.