A bogus police officer who reportedly conned his fiancée out of GHS 62,200 has been given a GHS 70,000 bail with two sureties by an Accra Circuit Court.
The sureties must be family members, according to a court ruling issued by Mr. K. K. Obin Yeboah.
Narh Coffie, who pretended to be a police officer working for the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Headquarters, has denied collecting GHS62,200 from Ellen Nyarko. Coffie claimed to have been in an accident and as a result, required the money for medical care.
The 28th of July 2022 will see him appear.
Ellen is the complainant and a businesswoman who lives in Kwashieman in Accra, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ASP) Mr. Emmanuel Nyamekye, who testified in court.
Mr. Coffie, a 47-year-old inhabitant of Accra Newtown in the Greater Accra Region, is also a businessman.
According to ASP Nyamekye, the accused met the complainant in August 2021 in Tudu while wearing civilian clothing and carrying a pair of handcuffs.
He claimed that the accused identified himself to the complainant as a CID Headquarters-based police officer who was now attached to the Airport Police Station.
According to the prosecution, the complainant accepted the accused's proposal of love.
According to testimony given in court, the complainant initiated contact with the defendant after mistaking him for a police officer and developing an intimate connection with him.
According to ASP Nyamekye, when they were dating, the accused pretended to be in an accident on Achimota-Circle Road and informed the complainant that he had been sent to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi for treatment.
He told the court that the accused once more forced the complainant to speak on the phone with a woman posing as the accused's mother who had just returned from the United States and begged the complainant to send money for the accused's medical expenses with the assurance that he would pay it back in dollars.
According to ASP Nyamekye, the defendant forced the complainant to talk on the phone with a guy posing as his father at the hospital, who also affirmed that his son had been injured in an accident.
The prosecution claimed that all phone calls were made using the defendant's contact information, and they also claimed that the defendant's alleged father prevented the complainant from visiting the defendant at the hospital on the grounds that the son couldn't talk because of the accident and there wouldn't be room for her.
The court was informed that the putative father continued to claim that all that was required for the complaint to receive treatment was financial support.
In the belief that his mother would pay later, the complainant deposited GHS62,200 in instalments to two Vodafone cash wallet numbers, according to ASP Nyamekye.
He said that Mr. Coffie stopped communicating with the complainant after receiving the money, which prompted her to report the incident to the police, who then conducted an investigation that resulted in the arrest of the accused.
According to ASP Nyamekye, it was discovered during the inquiry that the accused had never been in an accident and that the claimed parents who had spoken to the complainant on the phone were not his real parents.
The suspect was arraigned following the inquiry.