Court remands fake currency dealers

A Circuit Court at Tarkwa has remanded in prison custody, two unemployed persons for possession fake currency.

Agyekum Ntim Gyakari, 30, and Samuel Taylor, 23, pleaded not guilty and they would re-appear before the court on March 28.

Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the court presided over by Mr. Samuel Obeng Diawuo that on March 4, this year around 1500 hours, the accused arrived at Bogoso lorry station to purchase a vehicle.

He said they spotted a KIA Sephia taxi cab with registration number WR 608-Y with the inscription “for sale” pasted on it.

Chief Insp Amponsah said the accused approached the witness in this case, Nicholas Amankwah, who was the taxi driver, and expressed interest to purchase the vehicle at 3,000 Ghana Cedis.

The prosecution said the accused persons and the driver met the car owner, Micheal Odame at Obenkrom near Bogoso.

Chief Insp. Amponsah said that when Odame agreed to sell the taxi to the accused, Agyekum handed over an envelope containing 3,000 Ghana cedis to the car owner.

The prosecution said the car owner insisted that he would hand over documents covering the vehicle to the accused at the Police station but they refused.

Inspector Amponsah said that when complainant opened the sealed envelop he realised that 100 Ghana cedis were genuine currency and suspected that the remaining 2,900.00 Ghana cedis were fake currency.

The prosecution reported the matter to the Police and the accused persons were arrested and when the 2,900.00 Ghana cedis were sent to the Bank of Ghana at Takoradi for examination, it was established that they are fake currency.

Source: GNA