Cape Coast, Nov. 22, GNA- Joseph Korankye a 30-year-old accounts clerk of Ameen Sangari Industries Limited in Cape Coast was on Wednesday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by a circuit court at Cape Coast for forging the signature of the company's director.

Korankye, was in addition, fined 2.4 million cedis for stealing a cheque leaf on which he forged the signature, and would in default of payment, serve another 12 months in prison.

He pleaded guilty to stealing and forgery. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Augustine Amonoo, had earlier told the court, presided over by Mr. Beresford Acquah, that last Tuesday, Korankye, who is a senior accounts clerk at the company, went to the Cape Coast branch of the National Investment Bank to cash a cheque of 25 million cedis.

He said when the cheque got to the signature confirmation centre of the bank, the acting bank manager detected that the signature of the company's director on the cheque had been forged.

Inspector Amonoo said the company's director and accountant were subsequently informed, but they both denied having issued any cheque to Korankye and he was therefore arrested.

He said when Korankye was interrogated, he admitted having stolen the cheque leaf and forging the director's signature.