Police look for two fraudsters

Page 14: Daily Graphic, September 23, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
TWO women who were alleged to have cloned the cheques of two companies and succeeded in withdrawing GH¢78,750 from the account of the affected companies, are on the run.
Polices sources said although the cheque holders were keeping their original cheques, the two suspects managed to secure similar cheques, forged the signatures of the cheque holders and issued to their (suspects’) companies as if the cheque holders were paying them for business transacted.
Briefing the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the Public Affairs Officer of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Chief Inspector J. B. Darkwah, said the two suspects, Doris Main and Lydia Appiah, alias Joyce Aboua Agyeiwah, operated two different accounts each with a financial institution.
He said while Doris Main opened two accounts in respect of Dorismain Trading Enterprise and Crosspack Enterprise, the second suspect, Lydia Appiah, opened a company in respect of Holoydy Ventures and used the name Joyce Aboua Agyeiwah to open another business account as Aboua Agyeiwa Enterprise.
According to him, after cloning the cheques of the companies, the suspects then issued those cheques as if they were coming from their original cheque holders.
Chief Inspector Darkwah said in one instance, Doris cloned the cheque of Taramic Enterprise and issued it for GH¢14,300 to be paid to Dormain Enterprise, which belonged to her.
He said Joyce also issued a cheque in the name of Thanks and Glory Enterprise to be paid to Aboua Agyeiwa Enterprise which belonged to her.
He explained that after such cheques had been cleared, Doris and Joyce would then issue new cheques to be cashed by their other companies.
Chief Inspector Darkwah said the police suspected that the two women knew each other as there were instances where cheques were issued in respect of each other’s companies.
He, therefore, appealed to members of the public who knew the whereabouts of the two women to contact the nearest police station or the CID headquarters.