Fake Pastor jailed for fraud

A fake pastor who collected sums of money from a group of people on the pretext of securing them loans from a non-existent bank, has been jailed 18 months by an Aflao Magistrate’s court.

Christian Yeye, 35, unemployed, who pleaded guilty to fraud, told the Police that he gave part of the money to a spiritualist to double it but he (spiritualist) failed him.

Prosecuting, Mr Stephen Kpogo, a Detective Police Sergeant at Aflao, told the court presided over by Mr Kojo Frimpong-Manso, that Yeye lived at Denu, where his victims, numbering 50, and mainly women traders, also resided.

He said Yeye had been with a church in the area, now defunct, but still carried himself about as a pastor.

Mr Kpogo said somewhere in April this year, Yeye approached his victims individually, posing as a pastor of a Vision Church of Ghana.

He said Yeye managed to convince the women that his church had established a bank, Vision Development Bank (VDB) at Nsawam in the Eastern Region and the bank was giving small loans to its clients.

Mr Kpogo said Yeye under the cover of a fake letterhead from the so-called bank, proceeded to collect a deposit of a GH¢ 100.00 each to qualify for a GH¢ 1,000 loan in two weeks.

He said Yeye succeeded in collecting a total of GH¢ 5, 200 from the victims and started evading them until one spotted him and caused his arrest.