The
police have arrested two suspected fraudsters who attempted to dupe a
medical doctor by presenting to him a box containing fake dollars. The
dollars were purported to have been secured during the overthrow of the
former President of Burkina Faso, Mr Blaise Compaore.
The suspects are Veron Mussan, 35, a Burkinabe, who claims to be a medical doctor, and Victor Kwame Wembey, 39, a cleaner.
One other suspect, identified as Peter Toure, alias Sheriff, believed to be the kingpin behind the scam, is currently at large.
Telephone call
Briefing
the Daily Graphic, the Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer,
Ms Effia Tenge, said in February 2015, the medical officer (name
withheld) received a phone call from an unknown number and the caller
introduced himself as Peter Toure, popularly known as Sherrif and an
aide to former President Compaore.
She said Toure claimed he was
able to secure two safes containing $8.5 million and $6.5 million during
the overthrow of the former Burkinabe President.
“The caller
claimed he wanted to hand it over to an influential person. That was why
he had called the doctor but the doctor suspected it was a scam and
immediately reported to the police.”
Doctor feigns interest
The doctor, she said, therefore, feigned interest in the deal and “arranged for them to bring the safes to him in Ghana”.
However, Toure told the doctor that he would have to pay a courier fee of $10,000 after the boxes had been delivered to him.
Ms
Tenge said through intelligence gathering, the police arrested the two
suspects while they were in the process of delivering the safes to the
doctor at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, in Accra.
The police then
took the suspects and the heavy metal boxes which had been locked to the
Accra Regional Police Command where it took the police about 30 minutes
to open each of the boxes.
To the surprise of the policemen,
they found that the boxes contained brown papers and fake dollars which
were concealed in a concrete mixture.
Ms Tenge said the police had declared Toure, the prime suspect, a wanted person.
“Efforts
are being made to have him arrested. Meanwhile as investigations
continue, the two suspects who are currently in police custody will soon
be put before court,” Ms Tenge said. |
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