{"id":367513,"date":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367513"},"modified":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:00:22","slug":"welder-jailed-over-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/welder-jailed-over-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Welder jailed over fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
A welder, Kweku Sefa, popularly known as Pusher, is to spend a year jail term after an Accra Circuit Court\u00a0on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0found him guilty on the charges of defrauding by false pretenses.<\/p>\n Sefa is said to have defrauded Edward Ofori, a businessman of GHc60,000.00, under the pretext of providing him with two boxes of so-called pipe joint sealants used mainly by engineers, but were however found not to be genuine.<\/p>\n The Court further ordered Sefa to pay an outstanding balance of GHc49,000.00 to the complainant, Mr. Ofori.<\/p>\n Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Agnes Boafo, said the complainant resides at East Legon in Accra.<\/p>\n In February this year, Sefa, who introduced himself as Agyemang and Cisse, approached the complainant to supply him two boxes of the so-called products.<\/p>\n The complainant gave the convict GHc60,000.00, and when he went to check, the products were found not to be genuine.<\/p>\n A report was made to the Police and Sefa was arrested at a drinking spot at Ayawaso, near Pokuase.<\/p>\n The prosecution said Sefa explained that he was only asked by one Tugah to collect the amount on his behalf, and that he only got GHc5,000.00 as his share.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A welder, Kweku Sefa, popularly known as Pusher, is to spend a year jail term after an Accra Circuit Court\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0found him guilty on the charges of defrauding by false pretenses. Sefa is said to have defrauded Edward Ofori, a businessman of GHc60,000.00, under the pretext of providing him with two boxes of so-called pipe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":244947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[1964,3,1965],"yoast_head":"\n