A banker has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly stealing GHC11,000 from a deceased customer's accounts.

Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, 38, charged with stealing, has pleaded not guilty and he has been admitted to bail in the sum of GHC15,000 cedis with three sureties one to be justified.

The accused person claims it was the late Nana Adu Gyamfi Kwamaning III who asked him to transfer GHC6,000 to one Sarah Sosu, now at large and himself (accused) GHC5,000 cedis.

The accused further claim Nana Kwamaning III, who died last year had before his death come for the GHC5,000 from him.

Gyamfi is to reappear on January 19, 2017 before the court presided over by Ms Eva Bannerman Williams.

Prosecuting Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Agbemahia said the complainant was Maxwell Caleb Nortey Newman, a banker with the Forensic Investigation Department of Barclays Bank Head office Accra.

Chief Inspector Agbemahia said the accused person was with Customer Life Circle Management, a department of the bank branch at Knutsford, Accra.

On October 24, this year, relatives of Nana Kwamaning III went to the Oda branch of the bank and presented Letters of Administration to enable them access to the funds in the deceased's account.

It was realised that even though the customer passed on last year, there had been a transfer of GHC6,000 and GHC5,000 on June 2 and June 14, this year respectively. 

The matter, according to the prosecutor was referred to the Forensic Unit of the bank for investigations and it came to light that the accused person transferred the various amounts to one Sarah Sosu, a customer of the bank's branch at Airport on June 2 and accused person’s account personal account at the Abossey Okai branch.

The prosecution said Sarah withdrew GHC6,000 on June 3 while the accused used his ATM card to withdraw the GHC5,000.

Chief Inspector Agbemahia said the complainant after concluding his investigations reported the matter to the Fraud Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

During interrogation Gyamfi denied the offense and said that it was the deceased who came to the bank on June 2 and June 14 and asked him to do the transfer for him (the accused) and Sarah.

The prosecution said the accused failed for proof that it was the deceased who personally ordered the transfer, adding police investigations revealed that Sarah Sosu, who received GHC6,000 was Gyamfi’s cousin.

According to the prosecution, the cameras at the bank did not show that the deceased was at the bank on June 2 and June 14 when the transfers were made.