THE Brong Ahafo Regional Police Command has arrested five persons, including the National President of the Ghana Susu Collectors Association, Mr Emmanuel Elvis Aboagye-Manu, 60, for allegedly possessing large quantities of black papers, cut into the size of the new Ghana cedis and a bottle of liquid, believed to be used in printing fake currency notes.
The other suspects are Kofi Oppong Boadi, 56, Abubakari Musah, 65, Philemon Hayford, 42, and Amponsah Kuffour, 62.
The Regional Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Charles Seth Oteng, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic at the weekend, indicated that the suspects were arrested on September 27, 2008 by the Berekum Municipal Police upon a tip-off.
According to the regional police commander, the suspects had earlier sent Musah to Ayimanakro, in La Cote d’Ivoire, to secure the black pieces of paper, cut into the size of the Ghanaian currency and a bottle of liquid, which would be used to wash the black paper, which would finally turn into fake currency notes.
He alleged that the driver succeeded in securing the two items at the cost of GH¢100.00, after which he returned to the hotel in Berekum and subsequently informed Kuffour, who was then in Kumasi together with the other accomplices that he had safely arrived back with the items.
ACP Oteng again said Kuffour in turn relayed the message he had received from Musah to the other suspects on the latest development of their intended deal and requested that they all converge at the hotel again.
The regional police commander further intimated that while the suspects were about to drive out of the hotel in a Nissan Patrol 4x4 vehicle, believed to be owned by Aboagye-Manu, in which they hid a rectangular box containing the neatly packed black papers and the liquid, the police closed in on them and effected their arrest.
Mr Oteng, who showed the Daily Graphic the rectangular box which contained the black papers and the bottle of the liquid, indicated that the suspects were being rounded up under Currency Act 242 of 1964, adding that they would soon be put before court.
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