A Tema-based Ikson Properties Agency Ltd has filed a suit at a Kumasi Circuit Court against a former employee for allegedly embezzling GHC75,000 belonging to the company.
The plaintiff company is seeking an order of the court for a refund of the amount with interest effective November 2, 2023 till the day of final payment and cost including legal fees.
The defendant, Mercy Agyei, is a banker with the Adum branch of ABSA Bank Ghana Limited.
The plaintiff claims that between September and November 2019, the defendant, then a student of the Accra Technical University, was admitted to undertake a mandatory industrial attachment in the marketing department of the plaintiff company.
The defendant was sent to collect GHc75,000 from Electroland GhanaLimited at Kasse in Kumasi on behalf of the plaintiff company.
The plaintiff stated that the defendant collected the said amount from the Electroland Ghana Limited on November 2, 2023, endorsed an official receipt in respect of the payment but refused to pay the amount in the Company’s account even though she told the CEO that she had paid the money into the company’s account.
However, in May 2024 during an informal audit of the bank statement, it was detected that the defendant had not paid the said amount into the company’s account as claimed.
As a result, the case was reported to the Asokwa Divisional Police Command which is investigating the matter pending a criminal trial.
The plaintiff believes that it will take the intervention of the court to retrieve its money after several attempts proved futile hence the suit.
Mercy Agyei has countered the claims by the plaintiff in a 12-point statement of defence but admitted undertaking her industrial attachment with the plaintiff company contrary to her statement to the police in June in which she denied ever undertaking her industrial attachment with Ikson Properties Agency Limited.
She described the plaintiff’s claims as frivolous, vexatious and must be dismissed.
Source: www.kumasimail.com/ Barimaba Atuahene
