Tag: fraud
Driver jailed five years for fraud
Bright Sarkodie, a driver has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for defrauding a man of GH¢450,000.00 under the...
Businessman on GH¢150,000.00 bail over GH¢121,000.00 fraud
An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢150,000.00 bail with two sureties to be justified to a businessman for allegedly defrauding a banker of...
Five Sierra Leoneans granted bail over fraud
Five Sierra Leone nationals who lured their compatriots into the country and defrauded them of their monies, have been granted a GHC50,000.00 bail with...
Car Dealer held over fraud
A 41-year old car dealer who allegedly defrauded a cold store operator of GHC 24,000 under the pretext of selling to him an unregistered...
Is the bookmaker bet365 safe or a fraud?
bet365 is now regarded as the world's leading sports betting provider and is one of the largest UK companies. bet365 has a huge range...
EC postpones voter registration
The Electoral Commission (EC) has postponed indefinitely the compilation of a new voter register.
Dr Bossman Asare, a Deputy Commissioner in charge of Corporate Services,...
James Kofi Annan charged for Fraud and Money Laundering
• Granted Bail
James Kofi Annan, a self-styled entrepreneur and President of Challenging Heights, a Wiinneba-based NGO, was on Friday March 20, 2020, cited for fraud...
Businesswoman in one million fraud trial seeks medical attention
The trial of Anne Tamakloe, a 68-year old businesswoman who allegedly defrauded her colleague of over GH¢1,000,000.00 under the pretext of securing so-called “frozen...
Court remands barber over fraud
A 39 year-old barber who swindled a farmer of his GH? 10,000.00, under the pretext of securing him a building plot, has been...
Madam Akua Donkor in court over fraud
Madam Akua Donkor, a former presidential aspirant of the Ghana Freedom Party, accused of fraudulently selling a family property, was on Thursday granted bail...
Businessman in court over alleged rent fraud
A businessman who allegedly collected GHC35,000 cedis from a transport manager under the pretext of renting out a three bedroom house but failed has...
Businessman granted bail over fraud
An Accra Circuit Court on Monday granted a GHC28,000.00 bail with two sureties to Enyonam Ahadzi, a businessman for allegedly defrauding another of the...
President refers Airbus bribery scandal to the OSP
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to investigate the complicity or otherwise of any past...
Stop appointment of unqualified Company secretaries – Registrar General
The Registrar General’s Department, on Wednesday, cautioned managers and owners of companies to be wary of appointing unqualified relatives and family members as...
Court remands farmer over fraud
The Nkawie Circuit Court has remanded into police custody, a 52-year-old farmer who allegedly defrauded a cocoa purchasing clerk at Nerebehi, in the...
Businessman on GH¢73,800.00 bail over fraud
An Accra Circuit Court has granted Richard Kwadwo Kudjordjie a businessman a GH¢73,000.00 bail with three sureties for allegedly defrauding a trader of GH¢73,800.00...
UK denies aiding corrupt regimes
The British government has rejected suggestions that it has been providing aid to corrupt regimes that fail to account for the funding.
The Department for...
Court orders arrest of Rev Anthony Tetevi
An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of the Reverend Moses Anthony Tetevi for failing to appear before it to answer to charges...
Israeli AG: No legal ground to force out PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel's top law enforcement officer says there's no legal ground to force Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu to resign in the face of three corruption...
Spiritualist remanded over fraud
A 26 year old spiritualist who allegedly defrauded a trader of GHC93,000.00 under the pretence of providing him with a special schnapp bottle...
Forty Ghanaians deported from USA
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received 40 Ghanaian deportees from the United States of America for offences ranging from the trafficking of banned...
MTN MoMo at 10: Loyal customers to be rewarded.
Ghana’s leading telecommunications company, MTN Ghana, has successfully launched the 10th anniversary its Mobile Money (MoMo) service in Accra.
Since its inception, MTN MoMo has...
Chinese Court Begins Trial on Massive Fundraising Scam
The trial regarding an online platform that illegally raised funds from the public and whose unpaid principals amounted to 30 billion yuan (4.4 billion...
Chemical Seller Arrested for Car Fraud
A 56-year-old Chemical Seller, Mohammed Afful who allegedly defrauded Ms Hanna Stella Bruce Adjei of GH¢61,000.00 under the pretext of facilitating the purchase of...
Two convicted for land fraud
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced two persons to a fine of GHC1,000.00 each for defrauding a man of GHC8,000.00 under the pretext of...
Two Nigerians and 1 Ghanaian appear before court for fraud
An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail to two Nigerians and a Ghanaianl in the sum of GH¢930,000.00 with four sureties each. One of...
Alleged fraudulent practices: AfDB debars Cameroon consulting firm.
The African Development Bank Group has announced the debarment of GEO SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL SARL, a consulting firm based in Yaoundé, Cameroon, for a minimum...
Telecoms bosses charged with fraud in Tanzania
Tanzanian prosecutors on Wednesday charged two chief executives of mobile phone companies and four other suspects with fraud as part of a crackdown against...
Banker and and his accomplice sentenced 15 years
Two persons, including a banker who duped a Lebanese of 600,000 dollars under the pretext of selling to him a two- storey building, have...
Court releases estate developer over fraud
A Kumasi Circuit Court, presided over by Justice William Boampong, has acquitted and discharged an estate developer brought before it for allegedly defrauding a...