Two Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) revenue collectors who allegedly printed and issued fake receipts to two of the assembly’s rate payers have been arrested and are facing trial at the Magistrate’s Court in Accra. The accused, Mark Acquah and Eric Kobina Osei, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges of fraud and were granted bail in the sum of GH¢1,000 and GH¢300, respectively, with two sureties to be justified. They are expected to reappear on October 11, 2011. Briefing the court presided over by Mr Ali Baba Bature, the AMA prosecutor, Mr Yaw Twumasi-Ankrah said the fraud took place in March and June 2011, during which Acquah printed the fake receipts and issued them to two unsuspecting rate payers of the assembly. One of the receipts, issued to the owner of Chris View Hotel at Dansoman in June, involved GH¢411, while the second receipt of GH¢97 was issued to a rate payer who had visited the Ashiedu Keteke Sub-metro to pay her business operating permit. Giving details, Mr Twumasi-Ankrah said on October 4, 2011; a team of revenue collectors from the AMA, including the complainant, who is the auditor of the Ashiedu Keteke Sub-metro, were detailed to collect revenue from rate payers in and around Dansoman. On reaching the Chris View Hotel, Mr Twumasi-Ankrah said, the internal auditor detected that the receipt 0607025 which had been issued to the hotel owner was fake. Upon enquiry, the hotel owner told the team that the receipt had been issued to him by the accused person. In June, Acquah again issued a fake receipt bearing the same serial number 0607025 to another rate payer at Mamprobi, this time with the help of Osei. The two were subsequently arrested.