Wenchi District Court imposes GH¢30,000 penalty on MoMo syndicate

The Wenchi District Court in the Bono Region, presided over by Issah Abdul Wahab, has fined five Mobile Money (MoMo) syndicate members GH¢6,000 each for fraudulent electronic fund transfers.

The convicts, Edward Amuzu, 26; Salifu Nurudeen, 25; John Pobi; Godfred Acquah, 25; and Maxwell Fosu Kyei, 31, pleaded guilty to defrauding by false pretence when they appeared before the court on Monday and were convicted accordingly.

In default of payment, each of them would have spent six months in jail. However, all were able to pay the fines and were subsequently discharged.

Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Samuel Sameji, told the court that the complainant, 54-year-old agriculturist Sylvester Declercq Mensah, who lives in Boadan in the Wenchi Municipality, had lodged a complaint on April 24, 2025, stating that the convicts had defrauded him of GH¢130,000.

ASP Sameji explained that, following police intelligence, the convicts were arrested at their hideouts in Accra, Kasoa, Winneba, and Assin Fosu on January 18, 2026, and that the police had recovered the full amount of GH¢130,000 from them.

He said the convicts allegedly posed as individuals who had accidentally transferred money into the complainant’s MoMo account and requested his assistance to reverse the transactions. The police noted that one accomplice is still at large.

Judge Wahab ordered the police to return the recovered GH¢130,000 to the complainant.