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The Osu Police has arrested a house help who stole money from her Bulgarian employer to rent accommodation for her lover as well as cater for his expenditure to help him travel out of the country. A total of $16,500, an equivalent of GH�34,650 was stolen from Fredi Patric, a Bulgarian project manager with Consul Ghana Limited who resides at Osu. The house help, Esther Lamptey, 21, resides at Nungua and is believed to have stolen the foreign currency in bits between the months of April and May 2013. Superintendent Kwesi Annor Arhin, Osu District Police Commander (DPC) briefing the DAILY GUIDE said the complainant called the suspect on May 17, 2013 at about 8:00am when he discovered that his money was missing. The suspect who was called together with another person admitted the offence when she was questioned about the missing money. �She however said she only stole some dollars and took it to the forex bureau where she received GH�20,000 as the cedi equivalent.� The district commander noted that a formal complaint was therefore lodged with the Osu police which led to the arrest of the suspect. In a statement to the police, the house help admitted committing the offence and an amount of GH�1,500 was retrieved from her. Though she said she used GH�2,000 out of the money to pay for the medical treatment of her sick mother, the police retrieved a wardrobe, double door fridge, television, ceiling fan, microwave oven, deck which she is believed to have spent the money on. She had also rented accommodation at the cost of GH�2,600 for her boy friend identified as Raymond Borteir Mensah, an electrician at Nungua. The boyfriend, 27, who was later picked up by the Police, has been charged with abatement of crime and they are to be put before an Accra circuit court. Superintendent Arhin cautioned people who employ the services of house helps especially foreigners to dig into the background of such people.