The Wenchi District Court has remanded five alleged members of a mobile money fraud syndicate into police custody for their alleged involvement in conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretence.

The court, presided over by His Worship Issah Abdul Wahab, made the order following the arraignment of the suspects in connection with a mobile money fraud case reported in the Wenchi Municipality.

According to a press release issued by the Public Affairs Unit of the Ghana Police Service, “the complainant, Sylvester Declercq Mensah, aged 54, an agriculturalist at Boadan in the Wenchi Municipality, reported on April 24, 2025, that he had been swindled of an amount of GH¢130,000 by unknown persons.”

The police said investigations were immediately launched after the complaint was received. “Upon receipt of the information, police launched a full-scale investigation into the matter, leading to the arrest of the suspects on January 18, 2026,” the statement noted.

The suspects were identified as Edward Amuzu, also known as Kwame Tina, aged 26; Salifu Nurudeen, alias El-man, aged 25; John Pobi, known as Father, aged 37; Godfred Acquah, also called Kofi Biggs or Agabus, aged 25; and Maxwell Fosu Kyei, aged 31. Police disclosed that “one other suspect is currently at large.”

The statement further explained that the suspects were arrested at different locations. “The syndicate members were picked up from their hideouts in Accra, Kasoa, Winneba and Assin Fosu,” it said.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the group allegedly used a common trick to defraud victims. 

“The syndicate gang has been swindling unsuspecting mobile money users with huge sums of money under the pretext that they had wrongly transacted into victims’ accounts and needed assistance to reverse the transaction,” the police stated.

Further investigations, according to the release, showed that “the gang has been in existence and operating for almost five years now, having defrauded several victims of huge sums of money across parts of the country.”

The suspects are expected to reappear before the Wenchi District Court on January 26, 2026, for the continuation of proceedings.

Meanwhile, the Bono Regional Police Command has cautioned the public to be alert. 

“We urge the public to be vigilant in order not to fall prey to these mobile money fraudsters,” the statement, signed by Chief Inspector Thomas Akeelah, the Public Relations Officer of the Bono Regional Police Command, concluded.

Sompaonline.com/Derrick Djan