Allied Oil manager gets 138 years for theft

The boss of Allied Oil at Adjiriganor , Eric Dunyo, has been sentenced by an Accra Circuit Court for stealing money from the company to the tune of GH¢115,790.09.

The accused person who for 16 months understated the sales of petroleum products to the company was found guilty of sixteen counts of stealing by Justice Nana Adwoa Coleman, a High Court Justice sitting with additional responsibility.

Dunyo was found guilty of 16 counts of stealing and given eight years for each offence, all amounting to 138 years, but all sentences are to run concurrently.

According to the trial judge, the prosecuting team led by DSP Aidan Dery had been able to prove the guilt of the accused person beyond reasonable doubt.

She noted that while prosecution adduced evidence to prove their case with credible witnesses and documents, the suspect failed to prove his innocence in the matter.

Justice Coleman said he failed to convince the court that he knew nothing about the offence, adding that she had given him enough time to try and settle the matter with the company but he had so far failed to do so.

She said she found him guilty of the 16 counts and subsequently jailed him.

The facts of the case as presented by DSP Dery are that the complainant is the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Allied Oil Company Ghana while the accused person is the Adjiriganor Branch Manager of Allied Oil Filling Station.

He said the company for some time detected some discrepancy between the ledger balance and its stock at the Adjiriganor Filling Station.

In addition, he said as a result of that the company conducted an audit exercise and following that it was discovered that the accused person had on a number of occasions under-declared his cash sales to the company.

The prosecutor further stated that it was detected that for over 16 months he fraudulently under-declared his cash sales by various sums amounting to the said sum.

The prosecutor said in order to avoid detection of his fraudulent act, the manager in each transaction inflated his credit by the same figures he under-casted from the cash sales in order to balance his total sales.

He said a report was made to the Documentation and Visa Fraud Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department and the suspect was arrested.

He said Dunyo was arraigned after police concluded investigations.