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A US based Ghanaian businessman, Frank Anane Ankrah has been dragged to an Accra Circuit Court on charges of fraud.

According to the court during the month of November 2010, Mr. Ankrah with the intent to defraud obtained the consent of one Kenneth Kwame Asare to part with an amount of $10, 000 by means of false pretences.

Ankrah was accused of falsely pretending that if he receives the said amount he could provide him with a Toyota Corolla Saloon car.

Denying these charges, the businessman who admitted knowing Kwame Asare, denied receiving any such money from him.

He narrated that his friend informed him about a lady in the US who wanted him to buy auction vehicles to be shipped to Accra for sale.

“I subsequently talked to the woman, Jackie Pokua after my friend has introduced us over the phone”, he said.

On the heels of the discussion, Ankrah narrated to this reporter that an amount of $10, 000 was wired into his account in the US by Jackie after they both agreed on the vehicles to be purchased and they were going to be shipped into the country.

However, the two lost contact, for a period having Ankrah worried about how to pursue the transaction as planned.

“I later heard that she (Jackie) has been arrested by US authorities for stealing so I had to halt the transaction, pending the outcome of the case which I was informed was in court”, he continued.

Upon hearing that the woman has been arrested in the US, Ankrah said his friend started making demands on him to either ship the cars to him or transfer the money.

Obviously suspicious about the outcome of such move, he declined to send the money because the real owner may subsequently come out from jail to demand her money.

“My refusal to do so irritated my friend who later went on a car seizing spree, seizing cars that I ship back home for sale”, he said.

Although the matter was reported to the police, he said the security agencies failed to pursue it.

He therefore expressed surprise about the turn of events and how he was rather being charged with fraud.