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The Takoradi Circuit Court has sentenced a 49-year-vintage self-acclaimed ‘Mallam’ to 5 years imprisonment over the cost of defrauding with the helpful resource of the usage of a pretense contrary to phase 131 of the Criminal Offenses Act 1960 (Act 29).
The suspect, Abraham Adelove, is claimed to have duped a Takoradi-based businesswoman, Hymie Rahim, of $10,000 (GH77,000) under the pretense of securing some objects from Togo.
The accused had earlier duped the commercial organization woman of a large quantity of Republic of Ghana cedis to help her overcome some alleged misfortunes in life.
The court docket presided over with the helpful resource of His Lordship Archangel Ampadu condemned Abraham and sentenced him to feature a deterrent to others. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Robert Yawson recommended to the court docket that plaintiff Hymie Rahim may be a provider who offers nonsecular fragrances and ointments in Takoradi.
In 2019, she approached Ibrahim Adelove, a self-acclaimed ‘Mallam’ who resides in Kwesimintsim within the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region. He added that the suspect tactfully put in buddies with the complainant to assist her to place brakes on her nonsecular retardation.
The suspect later found to the plaintiff that her mother grows to be the reason for her mental retardation in life associate degree was secured to assist her in simple the bondage.
plaintiff naively believed the self-acclaimed Mallam and he succeeded in extorting an endless quantity of cash from her. The self-acclaimed Mallam glad the complainant to produce him coins to shop for her merchandise at an appreciably abundant less dear value from the Republic of Togo.
She trendy the concept and gave the accused the same amount of $10,000 in the Republic of Ghana Cedis for the acquisition of the objects. once a week, the suspect grows to be obscured to be set, and several telecall smartphones call to his smartphone were well-tried but unsuccessful. He later recommended to the plaintiff that the complete coins had been given missing while in transit to Togo.
The businesswoman, however, debunked his claims and demanded that he pay her back her coins. The accused came to Takoradi but refused to pay lower back the coins. On Wednesday, March nine at concerning 5: 00 pm, the complainant discovered the accused spherical Davi Ama Chop Bar in Takoradi and raised an associate degree alarm that led to his arrest. The suspect admitted receipt of the coins and more admitted that he endowed it during a gas industrial organization in an African nation however the commercial organization woefully crashed.
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