Two Persons Charged With Possessing False Marriage Certicates

Accra, (Greater Accra) 8 Oct.,

Two persons who fraudulently acquired marriage certificates and Ghanaian passports to enable them travel to the United States have been fined 150,000 cedis each at the Osu District Court . The accused persons, Thomas Boadu, an apprentice mechanic and Vida Tandoh, a student nurse, pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing forged documents. They will in default serve four months' imprisonment each. The prosecution's case was that Boadu won a visa lottery last August which entitled him and his wife to travel to the U.S. Boadu, who had no wife negotiated with Miss Vida Tandoh, a student nurse in Kumasi who acquired for herself a passport in the name of Doris Asantewaa. The two also managed to get themselves marriage certificates. The prosecution said on September four this year when they called at the US embassy for visas, their documents wee found to be forgeries. The two were handed over to the Osu police and after investigations, Boadu was charged with two counts of possessing and altering documents. Tandoh also faced three charge of possessing and altering documents and impersonation. Mr. E. Ankama, who presided ordered that the passports together with the fake marriage certificates to be confiscated.