A circuit court at Goaso has sentenced a 31-year-old unemployed, Kwabena Asante, to 12 months’ imprisonment for posing as a forestry technical officer and defrauding some timber merchants.
Asante pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea.
Presenting the facts of the case, Police Inspector Alex Anderson, said early this year, Asante went to Mim and collected money from one Abukari, a sawmill operator with the promise to provide him with locally sawn beams.
He said the convict, after collecting the money went to defraud the managing director of Bea Sawmill at Kenyasi within the same month.
Asante proceeded to Sunyani where he posed as a technical officer of the forestry division to one Atakora but the latter suspected him and alerted the police.
Source: GNA
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