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THE LAW has finally caught up with a fifty-five-year-old Ghanaian-based Canadian businessman, Boahene Sarpong who intentionally set his own Toyota Camry Saloon car ablaze and succeeded in securing insurance claims. This followed a well-hatched and rehearsed plan after being able to lie to convince management of Quality Insurance Company (QIC) with documents obtained from Kaneshie Police station on October 10, 2012 that his car was stolen. Before the insurance claims, Mr. Sarpong had already convinced one of his business partners, Richard Yeboah to send the car to Mr. Yeboah�s in-laws at a village around Dormaa Ahenkro in the Brong Ahafo-region. But, in a sharp U-turn, he made a report at the Kaneshie division of the Ghana Police Service reporting of the missing Toyota Camry with registration number GE 9350-12 and obtained documents which enabled him to receive the insurance claims. Narrating the whole chronicle of events to the DAILY HERITAGE,his friend-turned-enemy Mr. Yeboah, owner of RichYab enterprise, a car dealing company, said Mr. Sarpong having agreed to partner him to sell cars, �told me one day that he wants to go back to Canada and need a place to park his car.� Mr. Yeboah said upon careful deliberations, �he asked me to send the car to my in-laws at Dormaa Ahenekro which we did and left the car there for almost seven months. �When he came back from Canada I asked him to let us go for the car but he said the appropriate time will come, little did I know that he was planning evil. �I woke up one morning and had a distress call from my in-laws that during the night somebody sneaked into the house and succeeded in burning the car, but they saw somebody who looks like the owner of the vehicle,� he said. Mr. Yeboah added that, when he broke the news to Sarpong, they both travelled to the village to assess the cause of damage which �I insisted on reporting to the police, but he laughed over it.� �About one month after the incident, I had another call, this time it was the accused who had gone to the village with scrap dealers to cut the debris into scrap metals. �In all these instances, the accused had already collected the insurance claims without my knowledge,� he opined. The money was paid to him in two separate cheques, one at the Ridge Towers Branch of the Fidelity Bank with the face value of GH�16,000.00 while the other was at the Accra Main Branch of the National Investment Bank Limited with the sum of GH�15,000.00. Mr. Yeboah further said his actions; therefore, raised suspicions which made me contact the insurance company, but was told Mr. Sarpong had already been paid the claims. After that exposure, the company caused his arrest and was made to pay double the amount he collected as claims and was immediately released without being sent to court. Mr. Yeboah stated that �the accused one day came to my work place and forcefully wanted to kidnap my son into a waiting vehicle, but through the help of some neighbors he was stopped.� He said after he was granted bail, Mr. Sarpong came to his work place and threatened to kill him on several occasions. When contacted on phone to react to the issues, the accused person said �If somebody has hired you to publish a story, you don�t ask me go and ask them and denied having any problem with the insurance company and Mr. Yeboah.� As at press time yesterday, the police were lacing their boot to file the case in court.