A trader, Rebecca Brome, was on Thursday granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court when she appeared before it for defrauding two persons of various sums of money.<\/p>\n
Rebecca was granted a self-recognisance bail by the court presided over by Madam Mary N. A Aryee.<\/p>\n
She is to deposit an amount of GH\u20b5 13,000.00, with the court registrar, deposit her passport to the police and alert them anytime she intends to travel.<\/p>\n
She was said to have defrauded one Theophilus Anyan of\u00a0\u00a0GH\u20b5 7, 000.00 and Prosper Segbawu of GH\u20b5 6,250.00.<\/p>\n
Prosecuting Superintendent of Police, Kweku Bempah told the court that the complainant Theophilus is a trader living at Asamankese and Prosper is a carpenter living at Anloga, while the accused person is a pensioner living in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
He said in 2013, the accused person collected the above mentioned amounts from the complainants under the pretext of securing a United Kingdom visa for them at Odorkor.<\/p>\n
He told the court that the accused person on receipt of the money failed to honour her promise and went back to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Bempah said a report was made to the police.<\/p>\n
On September 30, the complainants spotted the accused in town and arrested her to the police.<\/p>\n
The prosecution told the court that in her caution statement, Rebecca stated that she used part of the money in processing the forms for the complainants.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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