A bank executive and a member of staff from a major telecoms company (name withheld) have been apprehended for allegedly conspiring with four suspects previously detained in connection with a SIM swap scam.
The suspects allegedly hired a bank official (name withheld) to provide them with bank account details and phone numbers of their victims so they could withdraw funds from their accounts, while telco staff was contacted to clone the victims' phone numbers for the operation, according to the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO).
This was disclosed when four of the suspects, Stephen Arthur, Nicholas Gyekye, Ahmed Ansah, and Daniel Kodzi, were paraded before the Accra Circuit Court, which was presided over by Ellen Kwame Nkrumah.