Hairdresser serves a five-year jail sentence for withdrawing GHc81k from a customer’s GCB account

Jessica Oforiwaa who is a caterer and a hairdresser has been sentenced to five (5) years imprisonment for withdrawing an amount of Ghc81 from a GCB account of a customer.

According to the facts of the case, Oforiwaa used a clone chequebook of the customer to withdraw an amount of Ghc81,060 from the customer’s GCB account.

It continued until sometime in 2023 when the bank noticed that there were eight cloned cheques in their possession which had been used to withdraw money from the bank.

The prosecution had stated that after the bank noticed the irregular withdrawals, Daniel Boakye, a Security Coordinator at GCB Bank Ghana Limited, High Street, Accra and the complainant submitted the cloned cheques to Camelot Company Limited, the cheques’ producers for investigation.

Camelot had verified that the cloned cheques were from a chequebook issued to Oforiwa’s account, Jesnat Cook Company.

It further stated that Camelot established that Oforiwa and her accomplices had chemically erased the account details and signatures of the original signatories to make the cheques appear genuine to the bank.

Further investigations revealed that Oforiwa’s accomplices had withdrawn significant amounts of money from various accounts.

Write-up by Ghpage