A 32-year-old Lebanese, Mohammed Rahi, who defrauded five traders of a total amount of GH�156,310 under the pretext of supplying them with cooking oil has been arrested by the police.
The suspect, a businessman based in Accra, according to police source, paraded himself as an importer of cooking oil.
In the process, he succeeded in defrauding Gifty Ayagre of GH�8,052; Mrs Comfort Daniel, GH�12,000; Bernice Ayivor, GH�60,660; Kwame Antwi Nnuro, GH�63,000, and one Kuffour of GH�12,600.
Mohammed�s modus operandi used in defrauding all the five victims was to give a photocopy of a bill of lading to the victims after collecting their monies, with a promise to supply them with the cooking oil. But the accused, after collecting the money, went into hiding.
The bill of lading he gave to his victims was fake.
Narrating his ordeal to the police, which led to the arrest of the suspect, Kwame Nnuro stated that on February 7, this year, Mohammed was introduced to him by one Kwame Brefo as a businessman who imports cooking oil into the country for sale.
Mohammed then collected GH�63,000 from him (Kwame Nnuro) with the promise to supply him with one container of 25 litres of cooking oil the same day, but the accused did not fulfil his promise.
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