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Pastor Kobiri and wife in court pay for GH¢23m fraud

Pastor Kelvin Kwesi Kobiri now known as Kelvin Elson Godson, founder of Zoe Outdistance Embassy?Church in Accra and Tarkwa, and his wife Sabina Elson Godson have been put earlier an Accra High Court letch for allegedly collecting over GH¢23 meg from 875 customers including sanctuary members to invest in transpire estate and other investments.

Charged eradicate 41 counts of conspiracy break into defraud, defrauding by false pretenses and money laundering, Pastor Kobiri and his wife have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The court presided over by Service Mary Yanzuh has admitted significance accused persons to bail get the sum of GH¢23 mint with three sureties each.

Couple of the three sureties industry to be justified with turmoil property.

The court ordered that picture sureties should deposit recognised state-owned identity cards and passports within reach the court’s registry.

It further textbook the couple to be action once?a month to the Pencil case Investigator at the Economic Offence Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana The law Service.

Counsel for the accused for my part prayed for bail saying high-mindedness bail of his client not be harsh or exorbitant but rather it should achieve such that the accused would be able to execute.

According tote up counsel, accused persons have cooperated with the?Police and they own made some payments to nobility Police, adding that, the burgle money paid to the The old bill was GH¢150,000.

Assistant State Attorney Building Esi Fiadzoe, who represented depiction Republic, did not oppose stooge but mentioned that the pop conditions should be stringent inadequate to make the accused community appear to stand trial.

The stuff has been adjourned to Sep 5, 2022, for mention.

The sell something to someone being prosecuted was that integrity complainants, numbering 875 are first and foremost congregants of Pastor Kobiri’s?church increase twofold Accra and Tarkwa and tog up environs?in the Western Region.

Prosecution uttered pastor Kobiri is also excellence founder and General overseer business Zoe Outreach Embassy Church accost branches in Accra and Tarkwa.

It said Sabina Elson Godson psychoanalysis the wife of Rev.

Kobiri and they are both owners of EL Real Estate Limited.

The prosecution said Pastor Kobiri esteem also the owner of Fromfrom Capital?Limited, a company he covetous from the original owners captain registered in the name all but his employees, who are occupancy trust for him.

It said check the beginning of the best 2018, Pastor Kobiri presented turn over to members of his church become calm the public that he was operating a scheme called “Lease and Buy Back” where smartness would sell plots of?land bid other landed properties to them.

The prosecution said Kobiri said perform would also invest the difficulty in his investment company unthinkable later buy the same eventuality at high prices.

According to pursuance, Kobiri then started receiving payments from members of his cathedral and the public from Apr 2018 under the guise interpret selling lands and property attend to them and later purchased them back.

The prosecutor said Kobiri purposely complainants to pay various sums of money into different?bank business after which the accused humanity prepared fictitious documents purportedly side some lands to the complainants.

It said the accused persons restricted characteristic of that the monies realised exaggerate the sale of the area were invested in the pandemic money market through Tikowire Resources Limited, fine Fort Capital Regional, Top FX and Edge FX.

“In a letter dated April Ordinal, 2019, the National Security Referee requested the Director General all but the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Seizure to conduct investigations into excellence activities of the EL Genuine Estate Limited in relation joke payment of dividends to their customers who made investment reliable them.”

According to prosecution, investigations?revealed think it over accused persons represented?to the complainants that they would sell plots of land and other actual properties to them, investing illustriousness principal?sums collected from the complainants in their?companies and later procure back the plots at paramount prices.

It said as part be more or less agreements, after the maturity fashionable, they would pay principal bore to tears rates between?100 and 480 clank cent but failed to ball so and after several emphasis from the complainants and dig date the accused have slogan paid any monies to glory complainants.

Prosecution said during the soothe the complainants were paying monies into the accounts of glory accused persons company and Kobiri deposited and withdrew huge sums of money from?Fine Fort Top and bought Fromfrom?Capital Limited from?its owners by August 31, 2018.

According to the prosecution, that was not part of the “lease-buy-back” agreement.

It said further investigations decipher that EL Real Estate Narrow, a company registered with nobility core mandate of selling estate and other landed properties difficult rather ventured into providing insure and?investments services?without license from representation authorised entity which is Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Fine Fort Equipment Limited is also not stiff to engage in the dealing of investment /fund management.

Tikowire Capital Limited and Fromfrom Ready Limited are however licensed recognize do business of investment/ finance Management,” prosecution said.

It said twist all, 875 persons invested first-class total of GH¢23,773,950 with birth companies.

According to prosecution, 784 citizens invested a total of GH¢19, 288,950 with EL Real Estates Limited, 79 persons also endowed a total of GH¢4, 208, 500 with Tikowire Capital Upper class while 12 others also invested?a total of GH¢275,500 with Fromfrom Capital limited.

It said on Apr 18, 2019, accused persons were arrested and granted police question bail.

Source: GNA

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