A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old driver, Mark Doughan to three years imprisonment for duping fifty-one people.
Doughan succeeded in making an amount Fifty-seven Thousand Five Hundred and Ten Ghana cedis from the victims under the pretext of securing them jobs in the public sector.
The convict is a driver who resides at Edukrom near Cape Coast, his accomplice identified only as Sadik is currently on the run, while one Albert Bruce, the main perpetrator, had already been imprisoned by the court.
Narrating the facts of the case, the prosecuting Chief, Sergeant Yakubu Iddrisu said in February 2019, Bruce who claimed to be a senior police officer, met Doughan at Elmina and during a lengthy conversation, told him he could help people secure jobs into different parts of the public sector at a fee.
Bruce was said to have told Doughan that his friend, Sadik whom he claimed was also a senior policeman, would facilitate the process.
Convinced Doughan contacted one Naana Ibrahim, a witness in the case to help him secure jobs for people in the vicinity with fees between Five Hundred Ghana cedis and Seven Thousand Ghana cedis, to which she agreed.
Ibrahim later handed over an amount of One Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand Ghana cedis she had collected from fifty-one victims awaiting recruitment to Doughan.
According to Sergeant Iddrisu, Doughan, in turn, transferred Seventy-nine Thousand Four hundred and Ninety Ghana cedis out of the amount to Bruce and kept the balance of Fifty-seven Thousand Five Hundred and Ten Ghana cedis to himself.
Sometime in July 2020, a victim of the fraud, Comfort Adoma, lodged a complaint against Doughan and Bruce when the jobs were not forthcoming and Bruce. Both Doughan and Bruce were traced and arrested.
Bruce confessed to transferring some monies to Sadik.
The convict also admitted that he and Bruce had earlier sent some fake letters to the victims to report at various public offices under the pretext of recruitment after he realized the pressures coming from the victims had become unbearable.
Sergeant Iddrisu said Bruce and Doughan had so far refunded an amount of Thirty-one Thousand Ghana cedis to the police, which had been shared among some victims.
He said the Police are on the heels of Sadik to arraign him before court.