A 34-year-old outsourced worker of Stanbic Bank, Martha Amakye, was Thursday jailed eight years by the Accra High Court for defrauding scores of customers of the bank of more than GH₵1.8 million.
Amakye was found guilty by the court presided over by Mrs Justice Afia Serwaa Asare- Botwe for exploiting 246 customers of the bank by collecting various sums of money from them between 2015 and 2016 on the pretext of investing it in fixed deposits.
She had promised customers interest rate of between 18 and 20 per cent per month.
Amakye had pleaded not guilty to 31 counts of defrauding by false pretence, but was found guilty after the court held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
The court slapped the convict eight years for each count, which would run concurrently.
Apart from the custodial sentence, the court also directed the state agencies to take steps to retrieve the amounts that Amakye swindled from the customers, since she failed to refund it.
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So Ghana justice system can do this? What kind of juries do we have in the country what they do is selective justice which shouldn't be so I fear for GHANA
A boy who stole a mobile phone worth Ghc700 got 12 years jail term. Another person steals GH¢1,800,000 and gets 8 years. Wayome stole GHC Opipipiipiipiiii and he is walking free. What kind of Justice system is this??? Lord have mercy!!!
So Ghana justice system can do this? What about those politicians that have stolen millions of cedis and dollars? What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Martha Paa, you shock self. Go work and you go steal. You no try koraaa. Fine girl like you.