The Dunkwa-on-Offin Police Command of the Central Regional has arrested three fraudsters who wanted to defraud Bayport Financial Services at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Twifo-Hemang-Lower-Denkyira District. The three, Gilbert Boahen, unemployed, Joseph Amponsah and Romeo Oduro Marfo, teachers, decided to defraud the bank with a fake pay slip and ID cards. Corporal Raymond Asaaba of the Central Regional Command said the suspects were arrested on 25th August 2010 at about 2:30pm when Gilbert Boahen went to the bank with the fake a pay slip, bearing the name of Foster Frimpong, and decided to solicit a loan. Corporal Asaaba added that further questions posed by the manager of the bank, William Anokye to Gilbert made the manager realise that Gilbert was a fraudster as he was not able to answer any of the questions about the pay slip he presented to him. Mr Anokye subsequently handed him over to the Dunkwa-on-Offin Police for questioning. The accused, Gilbert Boahen, upon further interrogation, revealed a Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) ID card and a National Health Insurance (NHIS) ID card, both bearing the names of Foster Frimpong, with his passport-sized pictures printed on them. He also had a Ghana Education Service (GES) pay slip on him. Corporal Asaaba stated that Gilbert led the police, on 28th August 2010, to the house of Joseph Ampomah, who Gilbert claimed recruited him and others to prepare forged document to solicit loans from banks and financial institutions. Gilbert was to take the proceeds back to Joseph so they would share. Ampomah, upon seeing the police in his house, stripped himself naked and took to his heels but he was chased and arrested. According to Cpl Asaaba, upon a search in Joseph’s room, the police found a GES and A.M.E Zion Educational Units letter heads, as well as a University of Cape Coast (UCC) certificates with different names, some of them with the name of Joseph Ampomah. The police also found three NHIS cards, ten Voter ID cards with different names and pictures, authorisation note from the Controller and Accountant General, pay slips belonging to different levels of educational staff and four Agricultural Development Bank cheque books and ATM cards. Joseph Ampomah claimed ownership of the exhibits when he was interrogated and mentioned Romeo Oduro Marfo as his accomplice. They have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime, impersonation, processing forged document, falsification of account and abetment of crime. They were remanded by a Dunkwa-on-Offin Circuit Court on 31st August 2010 and are to appear on 13th September 2010. From Sarah Afful & Desmond K. Dapaah, Cape Coast