Housewife in court for allegedly helping two others to steal from forex bureau

A 30-year-old housewife allegedly assisted two other foreign nationals to steal $1,600 from a cashier at a Forex bureau at the Accra Mall.

Narrating the incident, Chief Inspector Maxwell Lanyo said on February 27, 2023, the suspect Raquia Mohammed Rashida gave her unregistered  Kia Optima vehicle with DV plate number 7734-23 to the two foreign nationals.

The two, Bashir Mahmoud Ramzy also known as Waleed Mohamoud Ramzy and Yasmin Sadiq Ebrahim, drove to the Accra Mall for shopping.

They went to the Forex Bureau at the Mall to change money and requested a 2017 hundred-dollar Bill.

The cashier then sampled a bundle of dollars and asked one of the suspects to sort the notes out while he attended to another customer.

The suspect, however, hid some of the dollar notes in his pocket and thereafter he and another female left the shop.

Inspector Lanyo said soon as they left, the cashier realised the bundle of notes he gave out to be sorted was short of $1,600.

He ran after the suspects, but they hurriedly joined a waiting Kia Optima at the parking lot and the driver sped off bumping into other cars at the parking lot and ramming into the exit gate.

According to the police, the whole incident was captured on CCTV.

Raquia Mohammed Rashida was arrested and the Kia Optima was retrieved on March 15 following police intelligence at Spintex where she lives.

The police discovered that the vehicle had been resprayed in a different colour while the number plate was hidden in it.

She later refunded the $1,600 to the Police and the same has been kept as an exhibit.

She was arraigned before the Adentan Circuit Court and charged with abetment of crime namely stealing. but she pleaded not guilty.

The court presided over by Sedinam Awo Balokah has admitted her to bail in the sum of GHS50,000 with one surety.

Meanwhile, her accomplices are still at large.