Court remands two key suspects in recruitment scam
The Accra Circuit Court has remanded in custody the two key suspects of the recent police recruitment scam, Alifa Adams, alias Cassidy or Baaba, and Joseph Awuni Seidu.
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The two were put before the court yesterday on charges of defrauding by false pretences but their pleas were not taken.
The judge, Mr Justice Aboagye Tandoh, therefore, remanded them in police custody to re-appear before the court on Monday, March 23, 2015.
The two were remanded into police custody for them to assist in investigations into the scam that resulted in the loss of more than GH¢1.2 million to prospective recruits.
A source at the CID headquarters hinted that the arrest of the two suspects who were key to the investigations helped the work of the Special Investigations Taskforce ( SIT) to meet the deadline of the investigations which ended yesterday.
Awuni was said to have been key in organising agents in parts of the country and also collecting money from the victims.
He was first arrested in his hideout in Accra, while Adams was arrested but he jumped bail. He reported to the police following a publication in the Daily Graphic.
Their arrests bring the number of persons so far in the police custody in connection with the recruitment fraud to eight. Two are police officers, while the rest are civilians.
They are Aisha Asumda, alias Aisha Boku Masi, a 36-year-old shea butter seller; Alifa Adams, alias Abass, a 27-year-old unemployed man; Amos Brown, 40, a radio presenter; General Corporal Gideon Sarpong of the Visibility Unit of the Ghana Police Service, Takoradi; and Constable Ruth Agyiri, 27, of the Central Police Station, Koforidua.
The rest are Pastor Paul Danso from Tarkwa and Richard Harrison, 30.