Tema (Greater Accra), 25 March ?99 ?

Edwin Mawuli Alorvor, electrician and local agent of Keryong Mining Company Limited in Accra, was today sentenced to a 10-year-jail term by the Tema Public Tribunal for defrauding 10 people of 24,300 dollars (56 million cedis) under the pretext of sending them to Korea. He pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea. Chief Inspector Edith Nutakor told the tribunal chaired by Mr R.C. Azumah that in the early part 1998, the accused organised some graduate students and teachers with a promise to take them to Korea to teach English at the Dorcal Foreign Language Institute. Each of the complainants was requested to pay 3,000 dollars with the departure time set for July 1998. Chief Inspector Nutakor said although not all the complainants paid the full amount required, Alorvor collected a total of 24,300 dollars from them. When the departure time was approaching the accused told the complainants that he had invested the money in gold business to procure more money to get them travelling documents. She said the accused person could not honour his promise and went into hiding until his arrest on August 27, 1998.