He appeared in court presided over by Kwabena Kodua Obiri-Yeboah yesterday (January 16)
According to graphic.com.gh, the suspect’s request was not accepted by the court and he will appear again on January 18 for the incident.
“The facts of the case as read out in court by the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Samuel Ahiabor, is that Abulley who resides in Odorkor continuously deceived the unsuspecting victim by introducing him to observe the original phone displayed for sale.
“After agreeing on a certain price through bargaining, the defendant eventually exchanged the actual phone for a phone case wrapped in pieces of broken tiles.
“The prosecutor said that the victims who bought the phones went home and, when they tried to use the newly bought phones, they realized that they had been made to exchange money for a decorated phone cover that was piled with pieces of broken tiles.
“The police on December 22, 2022, found the accused in a place along the part of the Achimota overpass near the old station with an original Tecno Camon 19 mobile phone on the phone cover, and two similar phone covers all wrapped in a damaged box. usual business, try to lure some victims to express interest in business.
“He added that his search uncovered a fraudulent package that led to his immediate arrest to assist the police investigation.
“Thus the accused was brought before this Honorable Court when efforts were made to arrest the accomplice, now in public,” state-owned news outlet quotes Chief Inspector Ahiabor as saying.
During investigation, the suspect used fraudulent means to make unsuspecting phone buyers pay cash ranging from GHc500.00 to GHc1,000.00 after they gave him a damaged box that was wrapped without their knowledge.