Witness identifies accused person's handwriting
Gilbert Boyefio
17/06/2008
A prosecution witness, Afishata Saaka, in the case in which two people are standing trial for stealing monies meant for the Internal Revenue Service, has identified the handwriting of the second accused person, Joseph Kofi Yeboah, in court.
The witness who is a colleague of the two accused persons at the Controller and Accountant-Generals' Department attached to the Department of Urban Roads in Kumasi, said she has worked with them for 18 years. She further told the court that she has worked in the same office with Joseph Kofi Yeboah for 9 years and can therefore identify his handwriting.
The witness who was led in her evidence in chief by John Tulasi, an Assistant State Attorney, entered into evidence a cash book analysis which she held is used to record transactions made at the office. She told the court that it was the second accused person who works on this book.
She consequently identified the handwriting on the first eleven pages of the book as belonging to the second accused person.
Nicholas Sakyi, a deputy accountant and Joseph Kofi Yeboah, a senior accounts officer, both employees of the Controller and Accountant-Generals' Department attached to the Department of Urban Roads in Kumasi are being charged for stealing.
The two allegedly started stealing the money in 2000 and by 2005, when the anomaly was detected, a whopping ¢4.5 billion was found to have been siphoned.
They have pleaded not guilty to six counts of stealing and were jointly granted ¢2 billion bail with two sureties to be justified.
The facts as presented by the prosecution are that in 2000, the two men allegedly devised a scheme by which they embezzled money by altering cheques issued in favour of the Internal Revenue Service as withholding taxes and operated until 2005 when the anomaly was detected.
The two allegedly opened a special private account at a rural bank in Kumasi in which they cashed and deposited the money. The breakdown of the amount were as follows; 2000, ¢71 million; 2001, ¢69 million; 2002, ¢256 million; 2003, ¢878 million; 2004, ¢2.2 billion and 2005, ¢849 million.
The prosecution further said in line with the grand design the two altered IRS cheques to read I.R. Samuel and Sons Limited, and J.E. Service Limited.
17/06/2008
A prosecution witness, Afishata Saaka, in the case in which two people are standing trial for stealing monies meant for the Internal Revenue Service, has identified the handwriting of the second accused person, Joseph Kofi Yeboah, in court.
The witness who is a colleague of the two accused persons at the Controller and Accountant-Generals' Department attached to the Department of Urban Roads in Kumasi, said she has worked with them for 18 years. She further told the court that she has worked in the same office with Joseph Kofi Yeboah for 9 years and can therefore identify his handwriting.
The witness who was led in her evidence in chief by John Tulasi, an Assistant State Attorney, entered into evidence a cash book analysis which she held is used to record transactions made at the office. She told the court that it was the second accused person who works on this book.
She consequently identified the handwriting on the first eleven pages of the book as belonging to the second accused person.
Nicholas Sakyi, a deputy accountant and Joseph Kofi Yeboah, a senior accounts officer, both employees of the Controller and Accountant-Generals' Department attached to the Department of Urban Roads in Kumasi are being charged for stealing.
The two allegedly started stealing the money in 2000 and by 2005, when the anomaly was detected, a whopping ¢4.5 billion was found to have been siphoned.
They have pleaded not guilty to six counts of stealing and were jointly granted ¢2 billion bail with two sureties to be justified.
The facts as presented by the prosecution are that in 2000, the two men allegedly devised a scheme by which they embezzled money by altering cheques issued in favour of the Internal Revenue Service as withholding taxes and operated until 2005 when the anomaly was detected.
The two allegedly opened a special private account at a rural bank in Kumasi in which they cashed and deposited the money. The breakdown of the amount were as follows; 2000, ¢71 million; 2001, ¢69 million; 2002, ¢256 million; 2003, ¢878 million; 2004, ¢2.2 billion and 2005, ¢849 million.
The prosecution further said in line with the grand design the two altered IRS cheques to read I.R. Samuel and Sons Limited, and J.E. Service Limited.
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