Fraudster held

Page 38: Daily Graphic, August 20, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
A 61-YEAR-OLD man believed to have defrauded a number of accommodation seekers in the Accra metropolis of more than GH¢50,000, has been arrested.
Nana Kwaku Agyei was arrested at the weekend with the help of some of the victims who led the police to identify his whereabouts.
He is currently in custody pending further investigations.
The head of Commercial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Superintendent Maame Yaa Tiwaah told the Daily Graphic that prior to the arrest of Agyei, the unit had received quite a number of complaints and the descriptions of the fraudster, fitted the suspect.
She said the suspect, who resided at Israel, a suburb of Tantra Hill, usually posed as a landlord after he had been introduced by accommodation agents to residents looking for accommodation.
According to her, the modus Agyei had always been using was to use someone’s apartment to hold discussions with some visitors.
Supt Tiwaah said unknown to the house owners, the supposed visitors of Agyei would later show up demanding to have access to the house since they had already paid for it to rent.
At the CID headquarters yesterday, the suspect appealed to the police to allow him to pay the complainants.
Agyei also promised to assist the police to arrest his accomplices, whom he said, were six in number.