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The police have told Daily Guide that Collins Akomea Kankam, District Manager of Federated Commodity Company, a licensed cocoa buying company based at Sefwi Wiawso in the Western Region has embezzled GH�564,847 meant for purchasing cocoa beans. The complaint, Joseph Debrah Minkah, Operations Manager, told police that the company issued the sum of GH�5,492,290 to Kankam to purchased dried cocoa beans during the main cocoa season of 2011/2012 and 2012/2013. He added that during a random audit inspection, the District Manager could not account for GH�564,847.00 and dried cocoa beans to that value had not been supplied to the company. The Operations Manager therefore lodged a complaint with the police who arrested Kankam, the suspect, on May 2. The police gave the assurance that the suspect would be put before court after investigations. Thieves Raid Micro Finance In a related development, thieves have broken in to the building housing Boin Micro-Finance Limited, a savings and loans company and made away with GH�30,000 on the dawn of May Day at Esiama in the Western Region. Police had initially arrested 10 workers of the company including the Branch Manager Richard Biney to assist in investigations. The others were Ebo, Moses Owusu-Ansah, Salamatu Ismaila, Felicity Kwame, Georgina Yenzu, Gladys Miah, Eric Gyetuah Yankey, Paul Honlah and David Kangah Ellonye. The police said they received a complaint from one Joseph Apor, the director of the company that the cleaner, Georgina Yenzu, had informed him that the place had been broken into when she reported early morning for work. Police proceeded to the scene and an on-the-spot investigation revealed that the thieves opened the main door with a key and forced open the strong room where the two safes containing the amount of GH�30,000.00 were and carried them away. During investigations, the two safes were found damaged and abandoned near an uncompleted building about two kilometers from where they were stolen and the cash taken away. The police suspect that an insider was involved in the theft and had set up their intelligence network to track the culprits.