A 28-year-old self-styled businessman, Wisdom Ofori Asibey, has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Tema Regional Police for defrauding 28 job seekers to the tune of GH¢ 4,600.
The suspect, who is currently in police custody, promised his victims that he would secure them jobs and demanded valid identification items such as driver’s licences, passports and police clearance letters, in addition to the monies.
Investigations to identify other victims who might have paid various sums of monies to the suspect for employment are ongoing.
Two people identified the suspect as the one who defrauded them after promising to geting them employed.
According to the Tema Regional Crime Officer, Supt Eric Amoako, personnel of the Customs Long Room branch of ECOBANK at the Tema Port, received complaints from the public that they had paid monies to a particular account number, but could not trace the account holder after the payments.
He said the bank, therefore, started to monitor the said account and detected that monies ranging between GH¢ 150 and GH¢250 were paid into the account at different times from January to March 2010.
Supt Amoako said the bank consequently blocked the account, which, at the time, had GH¢4,600 in it.
This, he said, was to compel the account holder to report to the bank.
He said the suspect, realising that his account had been blocked, went to enquire about it and was immediately arrested and handed over to the police.
Supt Amoako said investigations revealed that Asibey had operated the account since January 6 until March 5, 2010, when it was blocked.
He cautioned unemployed people to investigate the background of those who posed as employment agents before dealing with them.
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