An unemployed woman, Yaa Adomaa, on Wednesday appeared before the Kade District Magistrate Court charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretences.
Adomaa had been remanded into prison custody to reappear on December 15, 2010.
The prosecution had it that she conspired with one Afua and succeeded in defrauding a trader, Awudu Bukari, of GH¢1,080 by false pretences that if the amount was given to her, she could supply him with six drums of palm oil.
Upon such false representation, Adomaa succeeded in obtaining the said amount from the complainant.
Giving the facts of the case, Police Inspector Francis Cobbina, said about six months ago at Kade, one Afua now at large, a sister in-law of the accused, and a customer of the complainant asked the accused to collect money from the complainant for her.
She then explained that her request had been necessitated by the fact that she (Afua) had already collected large sums of money from the
complainant to supply him with palm oil and she could no longer demand money from him again.
The accused therefore phoned the complainant to give her GH¢1,080 for the supply of six drums of palm oil.
The prosecutor said on the same day the complainant went to a mill and met the accused preparing palm fruits and therefore gave her the amount.
She then promised to get the supply ready within five days but she failed to fulfill her promise and went into hiding.
All efforts to trace Adomaa proved futile but on November 11, this year, the complainant traced her and had her arrested.
During interrogation, Adomaa said it was her sister-in-law, who asked her to use her (Adomaa's) name to collect the money for her.
But Afua had left town and her whereabouts were unknown to her.
The prosecutor said after close investigations, the accused was charged with fraud.