MoMo vendor in court over alleged GH₵112,660 theft from employer
A 29-year-old mobile money vendor, Juliana Addy, has appeared before the Dansoman Circuit Court charged with allegedly stealing GH₵112,660 from her employer.
Addy pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing when she was arraigned before the court.
The court admitted her to bail in the sum of GH₵20,000 with two sureties. As part of her bail conditions, she is to deposit copies of her Ghana Card with the Court Registry and report to the Police every two weeks.
The court further directed the prosecution to file its disclosures and witness statements ahead of the Case Management Conference and adjourned the matter to March 25, 2026.
Presenting the facts, the prosecution said the complainant, Esther Fosuah Cobbinah, is an entrepreneur who owns a company with branches at Dansoman and Last Stop in Accra.
According to the prosecution, Addy was employed in January 2024 and assigned to operate Cobbinah’s mobile money shop while supervising other employees.
The prosecution stated that Addy remained in that position until June 25, 2025, when Cobbinah travelled to the United States of America for six months, leaving her in charge of one of the shops and its stock.
It said that upon Cobbinah’s return in December 2025, a routine audit uncovered discrepancies. A subsequent joint annual audit conducted on January 2, 2026, allegedly revealed that Addy could not account for GH₵104,300.
Addy is said to have told the police that she used the money to pay her father’s medical bills, her brother’s tuition fees and spent the remainder.
The prosecution further stated that Addy was arrested on January 6, 2026, after Cobbinah lodged a formal complaint at the Dansoman Police Station and that she admitted the offence during police interrogation.
Investigations, the prosecution added, also revealed that Addy had allegedly used the company’s mobile money merchant numbers to secure online loans of GH₵5,225 and GH₵3,135 from a loan firm without Cobbinah’s knowledge.
The case is expected to resume later this month.
