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An unemployed Cameroonian man who collected GH ₵ 45,900 from a taxi driver under the pretext of providing 3 times the amount but failed to do so, has appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra.
Nkam Luc, accused of defrauding with false pretenses, has pleaded not guilty.
The court chaired by Ms. Adelaide Abui Keddey returned Luc to police custody to give the prosecution an opportunity to conduct further investigations into the matter.
In addition, he ordered the prosecution to put his house in order in connection with the matter.
The prosecutor, Sergeant General Thomas Sarfo, reported that the complainant, Mr. Ofosu Mark, was a resident of Nungua and the defendants also resided in the same vicinity.
Sergeant Sarfo said that Mr. Ofosu chose a Louis who was Cameroonian and became friends with him. Based on the friendship, the prosecution said Louis invited Ofosu to his home and introduced him to a business.
The prosecution said that when presenting the business to him, Louis took a 10.00 GHS note and two other blank strips of paper cut into the shape and size of the 10.00 GH note ₵ and washed the pieces of paper in white with some chemicals, which was later supposedly turned into real bills.
The prosecution said Louis subsequently convinced the plaintiff to bring in money so that he would give him three times the amount invested.
According to the indictment, Louis later introduced Luc to the plaintiff as a lab technician who would produce the money in large quantities.
Sergeant Sarfo said the whistleblower was convinced and managed to collect GH, 37,600.00 and GH ₵ 3, 000 that would be used for the registration and reproduction of the money in triple fold.
The defendant, after taking the money, transformed it into GH ₵ 200.00 bills and disposed of it with blank pieces of paper, sprinkled it with some energetic substances and handed it over to the complainant to keep until the next day.
The prosecution said that thereafter, Luc and his accomplice (Louis) cunningly stayed away from the plaintiff for about a week on the grounds that the chemical needed to launder the money was in short supply.
Luc and Louis later collected GH £ 8,300.00 from the complainant under the pretext of buying the chemicals.
After a week, the prosecution said that Louis and Luc continued to make excuses and the complainant became suspicious.
Later, when the plaintiff visited Louis, he (Louis) had packed his bags outside his room.
The prosecution said the complainant succeeded in luring the defendant to Nungua Methodist and was arrested.
When Luc’s room was searched, the prosecution said pieces of brown envelopes, black and white substances, cotton, A4 sheets and 141 strips of black paper with a $ 100 inscription were found.
Again, the prosecution said that four pieces of white paper with the inscription GH ₵ 50 notes were found, 89 pieces of blank white paper also cut out in the form of GHS50 notes, some white matter and a ruler.
