Female banker of Stanbic Bank defrauds customers to the tune of ¢1.8m and faces 8 years imprisonment.
A 34-year-old outsourced worker of Stanbic Bank, who decided to enrich herself through foul means has been gripped by the law.
Martha Amakye the worker is currently languishing in the cages of prison, serving a cool eight years for swindling several customers of the bank to the tune of GH₵1.8 million.
The Accra circuit court presided over by Mrs Justice Afia Serwaa Asare- Botwe found her guilty of the offence and sentenced her on Thursday, June 15.
Credible reports from the court indicated that Martha had been accused of exploiting 246 customers of the bank by collecting various sums of money from them between 2015 and 2016 on the pretext of investing it in fixed deposits which would yield the unsuspecting customers an interest rate of between 18 and 20 per cent per month.
It was discovered that Amakye had made a bogus fixed deposit, which the bank did not give its approval.
A total of 31 counts of defrauding by false pretence were preffered against her, but she pleaded not guilty to the charges.
However, the court found her guilty, saying the prosecution proved its case beyond all reasonable doubt.
Amakye was therefore jailed for eight years for each count, which would run concurrently.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court went further to direct to retrieve all the monies that Amakye scammed the customers of.
But she has failed to voluntarily refund the stolen money.
Amakye’s sentencing came just days after the arrest of a 25-year-old contract employee of one of Ghana’s biggest banks, Emmanuel Sakyi Afriyie for allegedly stealing about GH1.2 million from clients’ bank accounts.
