Police arrest "419" Shark Liver Oil dealer.

Kumasi, Sept 1, GNA - The Kumasi Police has arrested one Frank Opoku, a trader in Accra who nearly duped Hajia Fati Alhassan, a Kumasi businesswoman of 60 million cedis for the purchase of 12 bottles of "Shark Liver Oil" a fake mixture.

The Ashanti Regional Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Frank Adu-Poku, briefing newsmen in Kumasi on Friday, said the suspect was in Police custody and would be put before Court after investigations.

He said Hajia Fati received a foreign telephone call supposed to have come from one Sark, she knew in London on Tuesday, August 21. According to the Police Commander, the caller told the complainant that some Europeans had been coming to Africa each year to buy Shark Liver Oil and wanted her to be their agent in Ghana.

DCOP Adu-Poku said the caller further told the complainant that a bottle was costing 550 dollars and gave the number of a man in Ghana to contact and ascertain if he had quantities for sale.

He said when she called the number the man said he was called Frimpong and that he was the only agent in Ghana who imported the Oil from Saudi Arabia and proposed the same price quoted by Sark to the complainant but stressed that if she needed large quantities, he would reduce to 500 dollars per bottle.

The Regional Commander said the following day, Sark called the complainant to find out if she had discussed the deal with the agent and warned her not to tell anybody about it.

He said the complainant later through a telephone call got to know that the Sark who wanted to do business with her was not the one she knew in London.

Armed with this information and suspecting fraud alerted the Police who arrested Opoku on the 29th of August at Santase roundabout where he had arranged to meet the complainant to transact the deal.