Crime
Businessman granted GH₵350k bail in alleged visa fraud case
Morrison David Quame is alleged to have collected money from five people under the guise of procuring them USA visas but failed.
GNA
Results for "ransom money"
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Crime
Unemployed man in court for allegedly stealing GH¢46,700 from girlfriend
Charged with stealing, Addoh pleaded not guilty.
GNA
Crime
3 in trouble for allegedly stealing money belonging to medical officer
Philip Kodzi, who purportedly stole $9,000, £4,400 and €700, belonging to the medical officer, was charged with stealing, and he pleaded not guilty.
GNA
General
100 citizens petition Speaker to probe EOCO’s conduct in Cecilia Dapaah money laundering allegation
The group, led by former Auditor General Daniel Yaw Domelovo and consisting of Dr. Adam Bonaa, Justice Abdulai, Martin Kpebu, and others, notes that it finds EOCO’s decision to write to the Attorney General untenable.
DL News
Courts
Cecilia Dapaah’s husband testifies in alleged $1m theft case
Daniel Osei Kuffuor, an architect, told the court that he was surprised to know that Sarah Agyei, one of the maids, and accused, conspired together with others to steal their (complainants) money.
theghanaiantimes
Courts
Man accused of GH¢65,739 police recruitment scam granted bail
Ansong, who had no legal representation, pleaded not guilty to the charge of fraud.
GNA
Courts
36-year-old-trader sentenced for stealing employer’s money
The court sentenced the accused person after she pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful entry and stealing.
GNA
Africa
Sextortion case: Two arrested in Nigeria after Australian boy's suicide
Australian police say the teenage victim had traded explicit images with a person online before they began making threats and demanding money.
BBC
Tech
Sam Bankman-Fried: Disgraced 'Crypto King' to be sentenced
The 32-year-old will certainly be going to jail; what is not known is how long for.
BBC
Crime
Hajia4Real pleads guilty to $2m Romance Scam, faces 5 years in prison
The 31-year-old was indicted last year on six counts for fraud and money laundering after her extradition from the UK.
DL News
Courts
Prince Tagoe’s $40,000 auto fraud case: Court orders him to pay GH¢10 per dollar
Tagoe has so far refunded $21,000 (GH¢210,0000) cedi equivalent, leaving a balance of $19,000
GNA
Supreme Court News
OSP goes to SC; seeks quashing of HC ruling to hear motion earlier
The High Court, presided over by Justice Eric Twum granted a motion for abridgment of time filed by Madam Cecilia Dapaah subsequent to the OSP’s filing of a second motion for confirmation of seizure.
DL News
Courts
Court issues bench warrant for the arrest of three businessmen over fraud
The accused persons are to appear before the court and answer to the conspiracy, fraud and issuing of dud cheque charges against them
GNA
Europe
Paul Pogba: Juventus midfielder provisionally suspended for anti-doping offence
Nado Italia, the anti-doping agency, said that Pogba was suspended provisionally with immediate effect. Pending a trial and testing of a backup "B" sample, he risks a suspension of up to four years.
Sky News
Courts
GES accountant in court for defrauding 169 healthcare support workers
Gabriel Akosah Bobie, 45, was said to have collected the money by soliciting the support of some agents who marketed his ability to secure financial clearance in addition to biometric registration for interested health workers.
GNA
Crime
US-based Ghanaian jailed five years for laundering proceeds of romance scam
Kenneth Anim, pleaded guilty on April 27, according to authorities there, and admitted to "laundering funds from wire fraud schemes from 2014 to 2019."
DL News
Courts
Evangelist and prophetess jailed 11 years for stealing GH¢265,000 from retiree
Samuel Kwesi Tsogbe, the 33-year-old evangelist was sentenced to six years imprisonment and Esther Christ, a 63-year-old prophetess was put away for five years
GNA
Supreme Court News
They spend our money, let the Assembly pay my cost: Litigant tells SC
Mr. Cubagee thus retorted that “Mr. Lords, we are all coming from Sunyani. I sat on the same bus with the lawyer. He even saw me. We spent only 150 cedis to come here.”
DL News
US
US lawyer sentenced nine years to prison over $8M escrow fraud
According to details of the case, the lawyer engaged in two related fraudulent schemes in August 2020.
DL News
Africa
Malawi's former High Court spokesperson gets 30 months prison sentence for corruption
Mlenga Mvula will serve a sentence for corruptly soliciting sums of money and other favours from a church to which he is a member, in the names of High Court Judges and the Attorney General's office.
AllAfrica