A CID officer with the Ghana Police Service, Clement Suputour who mutilated a lady’s ear is once again making headlines for defrauding a foreign investor.
As alleged by a mechanic apprentice, Alfred Asare who has had an embittered encounter with the police investigator, Suputour plotted to swindle the investor of huge sums of money.
According to him, in one of the several plots, Mr. Suputour connived with another police officer in his office at Tema Community 8 Police Station to act as a Commander to convince the investor to send them Ghc 100,000.
“Suputour told me that he had schemed to extort Ghc 100,000 from the white man. The scheme was to make his colleague speak to the victim as though he was a commander,” Alfred told crimecheckghana.org.
However, because of Alfred’s intervention, Suputour’s scheme did not succeed.
Alfred contacted Crime Check Foundation (CCF) after he saw a circulating video in which Suputour had been implicated in a case involving a lady whose ear he cut off.
The young man claims he has also been a victim of torture by Suputour and has been denied justice for four years since the incident.
According to Alfred, the embattled police officer locked him up in a cell and made some inmates assault him because he had evidence of recordings against Suputour wanting to defraud the investor.
“The evidence are recordings of phone calls between me and Suputour telling me how he had plotted to defraud the white investor. When he locked me up, he demanded my phone with its password. When I refused, he ordered some of the inmates in the cell to beat me up,” he said.
Alfred said Mr. Suputour took the phone after being assaulted and deleted the recordings to clear the evidence but luckily, the white investor had the recordings because he had sent them to him immediately after the calls he had with the police investigator.
The mechanic’s encounter with Suputour began when the foreign investor asked him to initiate the arrest of his ‘master’ he learnt his trade from.
Alfred’s boss, popularly known as ‘Bob’ had swindled the white investor some USD 100,000. The white man, who invests in health intended to put up a hospital in Ghana with the help of Bob.
However, Bob diverged the money into building his house.
Alfred who was unhappy with the situation gave his master out by informing the investor about what had happened.
Realizing that his apprentice had ‘betrayed’ him, he made ‘attempts on my life. He sent somebody to pour acid on me in one instance. In another attempt, he sent someone to harm me. The assailant hit me with a huge stone nearly blinding my eye. I accuse him because he is the only person I have issues with.
Suputour who Alfred had asked to arrest Bob, demanded Ghc 2,500 but never apprehended him.
Alfred further claimed that the officer took Ghc 72,000 from the investor and blocked his calls so that he never reached him.
This was after the police officer had sought the contact of the investor to make the execution of his scheme easier.
Officer Suputour’s scheme was curtailed because Alfred informed the investor about it.
The young man said he reported Suputour to PIPS but did not see any action taken against the officer.
Alfred claimed that the officer said he had paid off his superiors and therefore he is been protected.
The mechanic, now turned driver’s mate wants his mobile phone retrieved from the police officer and seeks justice.
By Rudolph Nandi
