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The Director of Public Affairs and Marketing of the Unique Trust Bank, Mrs. Sophia Lissah has vouched for the innocence of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the bank, Mr Kofi Amoabeng, in a matter of purported fraud pending at the law court. �I know my boss very well; he is a very nice, simple, honest and Godly person. If he did not have his facts right, he would have backed off with amicable settlement to avoid all this brouhaha to preserve his integrity and peace of mind�, she pontificated. Mrs. Sophia was speaking to the GNA in a case in which a business woman, Madam Otua Owusua has sent Mr Prince Kofi Amoabeng to court for allegedly defrauding her of her house property at No. 23 Road, Ring way Estate at Osu RE, in Accra. The woman, a sub Queenmother at Akropong approached the GNA to delve into a case in which she claims she was defrauded by the UTB boss, but the reporter was asked to see the PR director for the details of the case. �Let me say that my boss could pay off by just a flip of his finger if indeed he has done such a thing. He knows his stature, fame and status and would not let himself be consumed by any debilitating allegation. But he would not let anybody cash in on his largesse by cruelly drawing public sympathy to win undeserved case�. �Why would your boss invite a snake to come to his house to bite him just because of one small finger of red plantain?� the GNA asked her. �You sound philosophical. Indeed, my boss would not do such a thing but if someone comes into my office like you and soon after, I shout of rape attack on me, the person has two options; he either appeases me with a handsome sum or he calls my bluff and asks for adjudication of the case to prove his innocence; so, my boss has chosen the second option, she answered. �This woman has sent my boss to almost all powerful corridors for redress. The Police, the BNI, even to the Castle and now to the law-courts; well let�s see what the court decides because as far as am aware my boss has paid off the whole amount involved. I cannot give the GNA the documents and the full details, since the case is before the law-court,� Mrs. Sophia Lissah recounted. She said the woman has even held a press conference and has tried using some press houses to bring down Kofi Amoabeng but when the facts are laid bare at the law courts, everybody would see the innocence of the man involved. �Well, the battle lines have been drawn for a legal show down to establish the veracity or otherwise of the case in due course, so let the court decide.�