{"id":23879,"date":"2014-06-10T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=23879"},"modified":"2014-06-10T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:20:12","slug":"konadu-rawlings-imposter-grabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/konadu-rawlings-imposter-grabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Konadu Rawlings imposter grabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"
A third-year student of the Takoradi Polytechnic is fac\u00ading the full rigours of the law for allegedly using the name of former First Lady Konadu Rawlings to perpetuate fraud.<\/p>\n
The suspect, Collins Kofitse, 26, and others now at large are said to have cre\u00adated a Facebook account under the name \u201cKonadu Rawlings\u201d to commit the crime.<\/p>\n
Addressing the press in Accra last Monday, Director- General of the Criminal In\u00advestigation Department (CID), Commissioner of Police’ (COP) Prosper Cwame Agblor. stated that he suspect used an organi- :ation called Empowerment if Masses (OFEM), which hey claimed Konadu Rawl\u00adings was a co-founder.<\/p>\n
He said they also falsely .represented on this Face- book page that OFEM was providing foreign university scholarships to students in UK, Dubai, Germany and Australia, and they de\u00admanded and obtained vari\u00adous forms of money from interested applicants.<\/p>\n
COP Agblor further said that preliminary investiga\u00adtion revealed that their physical address was in Kara, Republic of Togo and some of their landlines were also registered in Togo.<\/p>\n
He said a Ghanaian ap\u00adplicant resident in the United Arab Emirates be\u00adcame suspicious when he saw the advertisement and he therefore lured Kofitse to Accra, where he was ar\u00adrested.<\/p>\n
He said investigations were searching for other members of the gang.<\/p>\n
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Source: The Finder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A third-year student of the Takoradi Polytechnic is fac\u00ading the full rigours of the law for allegedly using the name of former First Lady Konadu Rawlings to perpetuate fraud. The suspect, Collins Kofitse, 26, and others now at large are said to have cre\u00adated a Facebook account under the name \u201cKonadu Rawlings\u201d to commit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"yoast_head":"\n