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The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service is holding in custody four persons for allegedly defrauding young people desperately looking for jobs.The four, whose names police have not yet disclosed, allegedly used a non-governmental organisation as a front to defraud hundreds of job-seeking youth.The organization, Read Link, in an advert, asked people interested in volunteering for a nationwide project that would see them being paid as much as GH¢1,000, to converge at the Teacher’s Hall on Friday morning.But at the venue, they were told to pay GH¢20 as registration fee before they could be interviewed.Some of the affected people who spoke to Joy News said they immediately became suspicious when they were asked to pay upfront.Supt. Dennis Abade, who is in charge of the Vetting and Crime Analysis Unit at the CID Headquarters, said his outfit is yet to determine the authenticity of the NGO under which the four had been operating.When rumours of the arrest of the four hit the wires, many young people who had fallen victim to the intrigues of the alleged fraudsters besieged the premises of the CID Headquarters in Accra, apparently to reclaim their monies.Supt. Abade said a list of persons who had paid monies to the NGO was found on one of the four persons behind bars.“We shall go by the list and refund their [victims’] monies to them,” Supt. Abade said.The CID boss urged persons seeking jobs to contact the “appropriate agencies” to ensure they do not fall victim to fraudsters.Source: Joy News/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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