An Accra Circuit Court presided over by M.E. Essandoh, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of two Accra-based lawyers over an alleged $2 million estate fraud. The order was given after the lawyers – Charles Opoku Yeboah and Larry Apaloo – had failed to appear before the trial judge to answer to charges on alleged fraud relating to the sale of four houses in a compound located at Osu, Accra, to the[...]
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The Circuit Court in Kumasi yesterday sentenced three persons to a total of 60 years in prison for ransacking a boutique at Asafo in Kumasi and making away with items worth GH¢69,400. The convicts, Kwame Sekyere and Kweku Poku, both car dealers, and Ibrahim Alhassan, unemployed, pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to steal, unlawful [...]
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A 29 year old man has been arrested by the Customs Division of the Ghana
Revenue Authority for duping 30 people of GhC 3,000 each to help them
secure recruitment into the authority. According to Citi News’ reporter Rabiu
Alhassan who was at the headquarters of the Customs Division, he
reported that the Chief Revenue Officer of the Customs Division of the
Ghana Revenue Authority, Seidu Iddrisu, who addressed the press said
Ransford Koranteng (the accused person) is in police custody at the[...]
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The father who confined his five children in their home for three years
ahead of Christ's second coming has been arrested by the police. This was revealed by the Hohoe Divisional Police Commander Edward Otumi on Eyewitness News on Thursday. The children had been confined in a room because according to the
parents, they might be influenced by the outside world to miss Christ’s
coming. According to him, the police was "unable to arrest” the...
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Local police assisted Secret Service in an investigation that led to the
arrest of Samuel B. Boah and Kwame A. Nketiah in
Bolingbrook. An ongoing investigation by the U.S. Secret Service's Chicago
Electronic Crimes Task Force led to Bolingbrook and the arrest of two
Ghanaians on charges of credit card fraud, said Derrick Golden,
assistant to the special agent in charge. Samuel B. Boah, 27, and Kwame A. Nketiah, 23, were
charged...
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Two of the five persons standing trial for importing narcotic
substances believed to be cocaine into the country last year, were
yesterday sentenced to a total of 35 years imprisonment in hard labour
by an Accra High Court.
The court, presided over by Justice C. J. Hoenye-nugah, an Appeal Court Judge, sitting as an additional High Court...
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