Accra, Aug. 11, GNA - Harold Ankrah, a Salesman, who collected 10.2 million cedis from a Pastor under the pretext of purchasing two cars for him, but failed to do so, on Monday appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra, charged with defrauding by false pretences.

Ankrah pleaded not guilty to the charge and he was granted a 15 million-cedi bail to return on Wednesday, August 20.

Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Rebecca Nugbemado told the court chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Ankomah that Ankrah approached Pastor Richard Ashong of Act Revival Evangelical Ministry in January and told him that the Custom, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) was going to auction saloon cars at the Kotoka international Airport.

The Prosecutor said Ankrah told Pastor Ashong that he could assist him to purchase two of the cars and listed them as Opel Corsa and Opel Kadett, which he estimated them at 12 million cedis.

She said the Pastor expressed interest in the deal, readily gave out 10.2 million cedis and promised to settle the remaining 1.8 million cedis, as soon as the vehicles were delivered.

Ankrah told the Pastor Ashong that the vehicles would be ready in two weeks, but he failed to deliver the vehicles and had also not returned the money he collected from the Pastor.