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The first accused person, a 29 year old electrician and the second accused person, a 35
year-old IT technician and woodworker, were arraigned on 3rd June 2021 on charges of
conspiracy to commit stealing contrary to sections 23(1) and 124(1) of the Criminal and
Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), unlawful entry into the Executive Director’s office at
the Hill View Guest Centre (HVGC), contrary to section 152 of Act 29 and stealing various
amounts of money, a safe, wallet, passports and cheque books belonging to HVGC and it’s
Executive Director, contrary to section 124(1) of Act 29. The second accused person was
also charged with causing unlawful damage to a safe belonging to HVGC contrary to
section 172(1) of Act 29. The accused persons were first arraigned under charge sheet
number D1/25/2021 which was withdrawn and substituted with charge sheet number
D1/37/2021 by the prosecution on June 3, 2021.
The accused persons pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges and were granted bail in the
amount of GH¢180,000 with three sureties to be justified for each accused person. They
were ordered to report to the investigator twice a week at the Kuottam Estate Police
Station in the Ayi-Mensah District. The investigator submitted that GH¢205,910 out of the
money stolen was recovered and returned to the complainants. A submission by accused
counsel to review the bail terms was denied, considering the circumstances of the case.
According to the brief facts, the complainant is the General Manager of the Hill View
Guest Centre at Teiman. The first accused person, who is 29 years old, is a worker at the
facility while the second accused person, a 35-year-old, is a former worker. On 15th May2
2021 at about 9am, the complainant came to work and detected that the uninstalled safe in
the office of the Executive Director, Alejandro Ramiro Viera, was stolen along with the
following items:
a) US$2,240,
b) €9,176,
c) GH¢310,000,
d) four cheque books belonging to the facility,
e) a wallet containing €600 and US$800, and
f) 2 passports belonging to the Executive Director.
A report was made to the Kuottam Police. “Upon watching the footage of the Closed-Circuit
Television (CCTV) installed at the scene, the first and second accused persons were seen in the act
of conspiring and stealing the safe, which they finally hid in the car booth of the second accused, and
they drove off. On the strength of the footage, both accused persons were arrested and