A former employee of the South Birim Rural Bank who falsified accounts and stole GHC 24,000 belonging to a customer while in the employment of the bank has been found guilty by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Balla Issah Tahiru Adams pleaded not guilty, had his sentence deferred until June 28 and remanded into prison custody.
The prosecution said Adams failed to make a full and true entry in the pay-in-book belonging to a customer, Ms Juliana Asamoah.
Through that means, Adams stole GHC 24,000 belonging to Ms Asamoah.
Police Inspector D. T. Nartey said in February 2008, officials of the Akwatia agency of the bank employed Adams as a "Susu" collector on
commission basis.
His work involved going round to mobilize funds from the "Susu" customers of the bank.
Besides that, some current account holders of the bank who stayed far away from the bank took advantage of that service and deposited money into
their account through Adams.
In July 2008, Ms Asamoah, a current account holder, requested for her statement of account.
After reconciling the statement of account with her records, she found that GHC 24,000 was missing from the accounts, while some figures in the statement had been understated.
On May 19, 2008, Ms Asamoah gave GHC 1,500 to Adams to deposit into her account but he deposited only GHC 1,000 instead.
Some copies of Ms Asamoah's pay-in-book had been torn by Adams and it was established that on June 13, 2008, July 15, 2008 and August 4, 2008,
Adams banked GHC 500, GHC 1,000, GHC 700 and GHC 1,300 respectively on behalf of Ms Asamoah but the pay-in-slips in respect of those transactions
could not be traced in her pay-in book.