THE Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have arrested two people who used fake credit cards for the fraudulent purchase of clothing from a retail shop in Japan.
The two, Kofi Afrifa, 23-year-waiter at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra and his accomplice, Ernest Ofori, 18-year-old second year student of the Accra Technical Training Centre (ATTC), were arrested when they attempted to take delivery of the items at the Accra Central Post Office.
The Assistant Commissioner of Customs in charge of Preventives at the James Town Collection point, AC Alhaji Mohammed Abubarkar, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said the two successfully purchased the items to the tune of $500 from Japan.
According to him, the owner of the shop in Japan, Morgan Bowman, detected the fraudulent nature of the transaction after the items,which the two suspects had route through Italy had arrived in Ghana, notified the Commissioner of the Customs Division, Major General Carl Modey.
He said the James Town sector office mounted a surveillance on the suspects, who later turned up at the Post Office last Wednesday afternoon to pick up the parcels.
“We suspect Afrifa might have stolen the credit cards from guests at the hotel where he works”, Alhaji Abubarkar said.
He said the two suspects admitted the offence and would be handed over to the police for further investigations and prosecution.
SOURCE: Della Russel Ocloo, Daily Graphic, Sat Jan 5, 2013
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