A 29-year-old graphic designer, Antoine Novelty Kwaku Kpodo, who allegedly posed as a BNI official and duped a tailor of GH¢2,000 has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢10,000 by the Hohoe Circuit Court.
Kpodo pleaded not guilty and he is to re-appear before the court on June 24, 2008.
Prosecuting, Superintendent of Police, Mr Anthony Shelley Darkey, told the court, presided over by Mr Samuel Sarpong-Appiah, that on February 26, 2008, the Ghana Commercial Bank at Hohoe was robbed by armed robbers of GH¢105,202.60.
He said when the robbers were running away, some of the money, wrapped in plastic bags, fell and got scattered.
At about 7 p.m. the same day, Wisdom Agbakpey, the tailor, who was returning from work chanced on GH¢2,000 in a plastic bag, he said.
The prosecutor said hearing of it, Kpodo, on March 3, 2008, went to Agbakpey’s house at about 7.30 p.m. and posed as a BNI official from the Hohoe office.
There, he claimed he was to investigate the robbery at the GCB and also to find out who took some of the money that got scattered.
The prosecutor said Kpodo then demanded the money to be presented to the authorities and Agbakpey obliged.
Later, it came to the notice of Agbakpey that the money never reached the authorities.
On April 4, 2008, Agbakpey saw Kpodo in town and alerted the police. He, however, escaped arrest.
But luck run out for Kpodo on May 30, 2008, when he was arrested by the police at his hideout upon a tip-off.
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