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A 38-year old marketing clerk of the Produce Buying Company (PBC), Nkrumah Kwame Isaac, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Tarkwa Circuit Court for defrauding by false pretense. He pleaded guilty. Detective Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the court presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo that during the 2011-2012 main cocoa season, the complainant, who is the Samreboi district �C� manager of PBC, employed the convict as a commissioned marketing clerk and stationed him at Asomase Society in the Western region. He said during that same season the convict was given an amount of 75,850.00 Ghana cedis to buy three hundred and seventy bags of cocoa for the company but he bought and delivered eighty bags of cocoa and bolted with an amount of 58,425.00 Ghana cedis. Detective Amponsah said all efforts to trace Nkrumah where about proofed futile. He said on August 2, this year he was arrested from his hideout at Kintampo in the Brong-Ahafo Region and admitted committing the offense in his caution statement to the police. Detective Amponsah said the convict told the police that he gave 10,000 Ghana cedis out of the money to his brother Obiri Sampson to travel to Australia and the remaining 42,000 to a mallam who promised to dig for him quality of gold buried in their family house and farm.