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A CASHIER with the Tema Industrial branch of Merchant Bank, Emmanuel Nyamekye, was yesterday arraigned before the Tema Circuit Court �A� presided over by Kyei Baffour, for allegedly stealing GH�2,937.00 out of a cash sum of GH�54,357.04 a customer brought to the bank to deposit. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Adolphus Otchere said the complainant in the case was the bank�s branch manager, Dorothy Adeline Asare. He said the suspect, Emmanuel Nyamekye, and another cashier, Duke Asante Twum, who is now at large, allegedly conspired and stole the money out of the sum brought to the bank by the unnamed customer to be deposited into his account. On February 13, 2013, Ms Asare, during working hours, was contacted by a customer who explained to her that he was at the bank on February 8, 2013 to deposit a cash sum of GH�54,357.04, which was not credited to his account. The customer�s narration baffled the branch manager who crosschecked to get to the bottom of the matter. Prosecution further told the court that during the cross-checking by the branch manager, she detected that the accused person, on February 8, 2013, during working hours, did receive the said money from the customer. A complaint was immediately lodged at the Community 1 District Police Station. The police, after receiving the complaint, reportedly went to the bank and requested a recording of the incident which was captured by the bank�s CCTV. They later found out that Nyamekye, together with Duke, conspired and committed the crime. Nyamekye was subsequently arrested and said to have admitted to the offence during interrogation and mentioned Duke as the one who handed him the money and some slips and later led the police to retrieve the GH�2,937.00, which they stole and hid in a black polythene. After investigations, he was arraigned. Police, according to prosecution, had meanwhile intensified their effort to arrest Duke and arraign him. A plea by the suspect�s counsel to have him granted bail by the court was turned down as he was remanded into police custody to appear on a later date.