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Two persons have been arrested for allegedly defrauding some members of the public under the pretext of offering them accommodation.
Edward Kojo Addo, 36, and Samuel Nii Nortey, 38, caretaker, said to be members of a gang of fraudsters who have been duping people were said to have placed an accommodation advert in an Accra Daily.
The Greater Accra Regional Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Rose Bio Atinga, briefing newsmen in Accra on Friday said on May 20, a South African national, the complainant, on seeing the said advert got interested and four days later phoned the agent now at large at the Airport residential area where he was shown a building said to belong to a certain Madam Theresa also at large.
The complainant, according to DCOP Atinga, told the police that Madam Theresa was offering the place for a monthly rent of $1, 500 dollars and $18,000 dollars a year.
She said the complainant on May 26, met the agent only named as Charles, Madam Theresa and her brother by name Edward Kwadwo Addo in a house on the Spintex Road which she (Teresa) claimed belonged to her husband, Samuel Nii Nortey.
DCOP Atinga said the two suspects, Theresa and the agent through fraudulent means collected 18,000 dollars as a year’s deposit from the complainant after which they gave him a bunch of keys to the building.
She said the complainant was confronted by the real owners who sacked him from the house and when the complainant called the suspects on their cell phones, they were all said to be switched off.
A relative of the complainant according to the Regional Commander, managed to take video coverage of the transactions, which he used to lodge a complaint with the Airport Police following which the two suspects were arrested by the police.
DCOP Atinga said in the course of investigations, it was revealed that another lady at Tema had also been duped of GH¢7, 400 in the same manner by the group.
She said the police have mounted a search for the arrest of Theresa, also known as Hajia and the agent, Charles.
DCOP Atinga advised the public to be wary of such fraudsters in the society.
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