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Crime and punishment of Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Source: GNA
2020-10-13
Nkam Luc has been accused of fraud under false pretenses and has pleaded not guilty.
An unemployed Cameroonian man who collected 45,900 cedis from a taxi driver on the pretext of providing three times the amount, but failed, appeared in Accra circuit court.
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 upon presenting the business to him, Louis collected a 10.00 GHS note and two other blank papers in the shape of the 10.00 GHS note and washed the blank pieces of paper with some chemicals when they became real bills.
The prosecution said Louis convinced the plaintiff to bring money to give him three times the amount produced.
According to the prosecution, Louis later introduced Luc to the plaintiff as a lab technician who would produce the money in large quantities.
Sergeant Sarfo said that the complainant was convinced and managed to collect GHS37,600.00 and GHS3,000 that would be used for the registration and reproduction of the money in triple fold.
The defendant, after taking the money, exchanged it for 200.00 GHS bills and arranged it with blank pieces of paper, sprayed them 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 GHS8,300.00 from the complainant under the guise of purchasing 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 that they found pieces of brown envelopes, black and white substances, cotton, A4 sheets, 141 pieces of black papers with an inscription of $ 100.
Again, the prosecution said that four white papers with the inscription of GHS50 notes were found, 89 blank white papers also cut in the form of GHS50 notes, some white matter and a ruler.
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