Another Pyram scam surfaces at Jomoro BANK MANAGER DUPES CLIENTS… And absconds with GH¢50,000, as police mount manhunt for William Thompson
The Half Assini police in the Western region have mounted a search for the Managing Director of Classic Financial Limited, a Financial Institution operating in the Jomoro and Ellembele districts, Mr. Willimam Thompson, who has reportedly duped his clients to the tune of GH¢50, 000 and absconded.
Thompson was arrested and put before the Half Assini Magistrate Court where he promised to pay his clients through instalments, a plea which compelled the court to grant him bail.
He however failed to make subsequent appearance and all efforts by the court to locate his whereabouts have proved futile, thus forcing it to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.
Information available to The Chronicle indicates that Mr. Thompson established the Classic Financial Limited in the aforementioned districts and convinced the local people to save with him to enable them access loans.
A lot of people have deposited various sums of money through 'susu' collection with the supposed financial institution. The Chronicle gathered that after collecting the money, amounting to GH¢50,000 of the people's savings, Mr. Thompson failed to give them the promised loans, and also absconded with their money.
Through a tip off, he was arrested at Suame, a suburb of Kumasi and put before a magistrate court, where he was granted bail after promising to pay back the money through instalments. He has subsequently jumped bail and all efforts to trace him have proved futile. Chief Inspector Kwofie, of the Half-Assini police confirmed in a telephone interview with The Chronicle that a bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr. William Thompson, after he failed to appear in Court several times.
This paper is reliably informed that the agents of the dodgy financial institution, who are indigenes of Jomoro and Ellembele, and were recruited to serve as collectors on behalf of the financial institution, are at the receiving end of the wrath of the clients.
One of the Collectors, Madam Dorah Ackah told The Chronicle in a telephone interview that she has been having sleepless nights as clients of the dogdy financial institution are always on her neck demanding their money.
She told this reporter that she managed to collect GH¢30,000 from 135 clients. “My brother, you can imagine the pressure that I have been subjected to after the MD of the company absconded with the money”, she said.
Meanwhile, the Collectors have petitioned the Jomoro District Assembly to intervene on their behalf from the harassment the clients are putting them through.
In a petition signed by the seven collectors, it stated: “we humbly appeal to your kind office to assist us find a solution to this tragedy that has befallen us.
We worked as collectors for Classic Financial Limited which operated in the Jomoro District”.
The operational documents of the company, according to the Collectors, bear the signature and stamp of the Assembly, and that encouraged them to work with the financial company. “As it stands now, the officers of the institution left the office without our knowledge and the Director is nowhere to be found”.
“The people are on us to pay them their money. We are highly confused and perturbed, and therefore, want to appeal to you to help us retrieve the money deposited at the bank”.
The Collectors have also resorted to civil action by filing a writ at the Magistrate Court to compel the financial company to refund the monies it had collected from its clients.
Several attempts made by this reporter to speak to the District Chief Executive of the area proved futile, as he would not answer his cell phone.