Banker arrested for stealing GHC 11,000 from dead man’s account

A banker, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly stealing GH 11,000 cedis from a deceased customer’s account. 


Gyamfi, 38, charged with stealing, has pleaded not guilty. He has been admitted to bail in the sum of GH 15,000 cedis with three sureties, one to be justified. 

The accused person claims it was the late Nana Adu Gyamfi Kwamaning III, who asked him to transfer GH 6,000 cedis and 5,000 cedis to one Sarah Sosu, now at large and himself respectively. 

The accused further alleged that, Nana Kwamaning III, who died last year, subsequently came for the money after it was transferred. Gyamfi is to reappear on January 19, 2017, before the court presided over by Ms Eva Bannerman Williams. 

Prosecuting Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Agbemahia, said the complainant was Maxwell Caleb Nortey Newman, a banker with the Forensic Investigation Department of Barclays Bank Head office Accra. 

Chief Inspector Agbemahia said the accused person was with Customer Life Circle Management, a department of the bank branch at Knusford, Accra.

It is said that most banks uses the monies left behind by dead customers who have been unclaimed to run their business. How true is this ?  Please do have your say in the comment box below.