Sierra Leonean businessman remanded for fraud

A Sierra Leonean businessman was on Thursday remanded in prison custody by a Circuit Tribunal in Accra for allegedly defrauding a colleague of 10,000 dollars and 30 million cedis.

Alhaji Mohammed Kamara, who pleaded not guilty to defrauding by false pretences, will re-appear on January 8.

Prosecuting, Police Inspector Bennet Sarfo told the tribunal, chaired by Mr. Imoru Ziblim, that in 1998 one George Ottu Williams introduced Mr Jonathan A. Osekre, the complainant to Kamara as someone from Abidjan with a gold fortune.

He said Williams informed Mr Osekre that Kamara was looking for a partner to establish a hotel in Ghana. The complainant became interested and agreed to do business with Kamara.

Kamara later made Mr Osekre to register a company called Jeddidal Ghana Limited and opened a foreign bank account.

The prosecution said Kamara and his stepmother afterwards collected 10,000 dollars and 30 million cedis from the complainant under the pretext of travelling to Abidjan to bring down 300 kilograms of gold.

Mr Osekre never saw Kamara again and he made a report to the police.