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Three ECG workers are accused of stealing GH2.1 million.

Three former employees of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and seven additional prepaid vendors have been charged with theft and money laundering for allegedly selling prepaid credit without recording the proceeds and dividing the GH2.1 million among themselves.

The first defendant, Ali Nansii Shaibu, worked as a computer programmer for ECG’s headquarters’ ICT department. According to the case’s circumstances, he conspired with the other defendants to sell prepaid credits and split the revenues without disclosing them.

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Grace Gardener, a cashier at the ECG Kasoa branch, and Anthony Quaye, a technician there, are the other two ECG officers involved in the case.

Ibrahim Baba Adams, the fourth defendant, works as a technician with Ghana Electrometer Company, a business that the ECG has contracted with to handle the distribution of pre-paid credit.

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The other six defendants are unaffiliated prepaid suppliers to the ECG.

According to the prosecution, the accused bought a Toyota Highlander Station Wagon, an unregistered Mercedes Benz saloon, and two homes, one in Amasaman and the other in Bohyen Junction in Kumasi, which belonged to the first accused person. This is why they are accused of money laundering.

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According to the prosecution, the defendants accepted their guilt and have since paid back GH 282, 600.

However, the accused refused to admit guilt and were kept in police custody.

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