A Kumasi Circuit Court has granted a GH¢900,000.00 bail with three sureties to a 37-year-old electrical technician for stealing.
The sureties, according to the court should include a civil servant, a person with a net worth of GHC 20,000.00 in his account and another person who must be able to deposit a landed property.
Mark Leonard, a resident electrical technician of Vienna City, a popular entertainment pub in Kumasi, is said to have stolen an amount of GHC 856,387.06, meant for the purchase of electricity pre-paid units for the pub.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge and will reappear before the court presided over by Mr John Ekow Mensah on August 20, this year.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Felix Akowuah, told the court that, the complainant, Mr George Blagogge was the Kumasi branch manager of Vienna City, while the accused was a resident electrical technician of the facility.
He said on April 25, this year, management of the facility detected that the electricity pre-paid units they had been purchasing had shot up considerably.
ASP Akowuah said the complainant went to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and requested for statement of account from January 2018 to April 2018.
It was discovered that the total amount of pre-paid units purchased on the receipts submitted by the accused did not tally with the statement printed out from ECG.
Based on the revelation, the complainant further requested for additional statement from January 2017 to April 2018.
ASP Akowuah said it was detected that during the year under review, the accused who was solely in charge of the acquisition of pre-paid units collected cash in the sum of GH¢1,027.886.41 from the company to purchase pre-paid units but only bought GH¢171,499.35 worth of electronic pre-paid units and pocketed the balance of GH¢ 856,387.06.
He said the accused in his caution statement to the Police admitted the offence and refunded GH¢ 30,000.00 leaving a balance of GH¢ 856,387.06.
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