Three former employees of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and seven other prepaid vendors of the company have been charged with stealing and money laundering for allegedly selling prepaid credit without accounting for the funds and sharing the proceeds among themselves to the tune of GH2.1 million.
According to the facts of the case, the first accused person, Ali Nansii Shaibu, a computer programmer at the ECG headquarters’ ICT department, conspired with the other accused persons to sell prepaid credits and split the revenues without accounting for them.
The two other ECG officers in the case are Grace Gardener a cashier at the ECG Kasoa branch and Anthony Quaye a technician at the ECG Kasoa branch.
Ibrahim Baba Adams, the fourth accused, works as a technician for Ghana Electrometer Company, a private company tasked by ECG with distributing prepaid credit.
The other six accused persons are private prepaid vendors of the ECG.
According to the prosecution, the accused persons used the proceeds of their crimes to purchase a Toyota Highlander Station Wagon, an unregistered Mercedes Benz saloon car, and two houses, one in Amasaman and the other in Kumasi’s Bohyen junction, which belonged to the first accused person, thus the money laundering charges.
According to the prosecution, the accused admitted to the crime and have since repaid GHS282, 600.
On the other hand, the accused pled not guilty and was remanded in police custody.
