THE REPUBLIC vs WINFRED OSEI OWUSU [2017]DLHC16332

Date	2017-06-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. FT/0036/2016
Citation No.	[2017]DLHC16332

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAA ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.)

MR. RICHARD GYAMBIBY

MS. MENSIMA CRENTSIL

MR. JOHN F. APPIAH

MR. ALEX OKRAKU

[2017]DLHC16332
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>WINFRED OSEI OWUSU<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(ACCUSED)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>MR. RICHARD GYAMBIBY FOR THE REPUBLIC
PRESENT WITH MS. MENSIMA CRENTSIL<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

MR.
JOHN F. APPIAH PRESENT HOLDING THE BRIEF OF MR. ALEX OKRAKU FOR THE ACCUSED
PERSON<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE AFIA SERWAA
ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.)<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;The accused was charged before this Court per a charge sheet filed
on the 18th of April, 2016 for the following offences;<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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Count One: Defrauding by
false pretences contrary to section 131(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960
(Act 29);<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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Count Two: Possession of
forged document contrary to section 166 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act
29);<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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Count Three: Uttering forged
document contrary to section 169 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29);
and<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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Count Four: Uttering forged
document contrary to section 169 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960, Act 29.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
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&nbsp;BRIEF
FACTS OF THE CASE<o:p></o:p>The accused person is the Chief Executive Officer of West African
Markets Link Ltd. On 17th March 2011, the accused person
representing the company applied for and was granted a revolving credit line of
$300,000 by the HFC Bank Ltd. This was after the accused person had represented
to the Bank that one Kwaku Agyei-Gyamfi had offered him his property located at
Airport Residential Area as security for the facility. Based on this
representation, the Bank allowed the facility to be secured with a mortgage
over the property.<o:p></o:p>