The Police has arrested the
Stanbic Bank worker, Martha Amakye, who allegedly defrauded the bank’s
customers to the tune of GHc900,000 (over N67million)..She was arrested at
Ashaiman in the Greater Accra region based on a tip-off.
The 33-year old woman who was
outsourced to work at the Tema Community One branch of Stanbic Bank took monies
from customers with the promise of investing it in high-yielding fixed
deposits.
She was declared wanted by the
Ghana Police Service after she absconded.
Her pictures were posted on
the Facebook timeline of Stanbic Bank. A message attached to the picture
indicates that she was a Personal Solutions Consultant at the Tema Community 1
branch in Accra.
Amakye allegedly collected
various sums of monies from clients of the bank between 2015 and 2016 with the
notion of investing them in fixed deposits
She is reported to have
promised the customers interest rate of between 18 and 20 percent per month
without the consent of the management of the bank. This got her many clients
especially because of the high-interest rate.
She will be arraigned in
subsequent days.
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