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Fuel station manager jailed 120 months for stealing GH¢398,000
He pleaded not guilty to stealing, was slapped with the sentence after the court, presided over by Stephen Kumi held that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt to establish his guilt.
Delivering his sentence, Stephen Kumi, the Circuit Court judge said Boakye deserved to be punished to serve as a deterrent to employees who engaged in fraudulent deals which could potentially collapse businesses and demotivate people in opening businesses, leading to an increase in the already high unemployment rate.
According to the court, it could also not gloss over the fact that Boakye committed the crime in 2021 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when businesses were laying off workers and people were in distress.
“The complainant company did not lay off the convict. He still kept his job to enable him to take care of himself and his family. Instead of reciprocating this gesture by working diligently and with integrity, he rather decided to betray the trust of the company and stole such a huge sum of money from them,” the presiding judge said.
The prosecution presented a case to the court that in May last year, the administrator of Infin Ghana Limited noticed some discrepancies in the pay-in-slips by Boakye as against the bank statements.
In view of the discrepancies, on June 16, 2021, officers of the company conducted a check on the sales by Boakye and realised that he had stolen GHC92,457. The company then caused his arrest.
According to the prosecution, on July 5, 2021, the company sent its internal auditor to conduct an audit on the accounts of the Kwahu-Tafo branch, and realised that Boakye had stolen a total of GH¢398,545.56 from the company.
Read below the full judgement from the court.
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