Female Worker of Stanbic Bank Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison For Defrauding Customers of GH₵1.8m
A 34-year-old outsourced worker of Stanbic Bank, Martha Amakye, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for swindling several customers of the bank to the tune of GH₵1.8 million.
The court found her guilty of exploiting 246 customers of the bank by collecting various sums of money from them between 2015 and 2016 on the pretext of investing it in fixed deposits which would yield the unsuspecting customers an interest rate of between 18 and 20 percent per month.
It was discovered that Amakye had made a bogus fixed deposit, which the bank did not give its approval. A total of 31 counts of defrauding by false pretense were proffered against her, but she pleaded not guilty to the charges.
However, the court found her guilty, saying the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Amakye was therefore jailed for eight years for each count, which would run concurrently.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court went further to direct to retrieve all the monies that Amakye scammed the customers of. She had failed to voluntarily refund the stolen money.
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