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Police arrests seven persons for
alleged fake insurance claims
Kumasi, July 15,
Ghanadot/GNA - Personnel from the Crime Intelligence Unit of
Ashanti Regional Police Command have arrested seven persons
for attempting to defraud management of the Adum branch of
Star Assurance Company Limited.
The seven including two women, were alleged to have prepared
fictitious medical and police reports and presented them to
the company to claim about 30,000 Ghana cedis as
compensation from an accident they were allegedly involved
on the Ejura-Nkoranza road in the Brong-Ahafo region.
They were Afua Sarpong, a resident of Kumasi, Rudolf Osei
from Offinso, Isaac Owusu from Techiman, Kwabena Konadu from
Ejura and Rabiatu Mansah, from Asante-Mampong.
The rest were Kwasi Obeng Ayarkwa of Anomanye in Kumasi and
Osei Owusu, an agent of the claimants.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Bright Oduro, Ashanti
Regional Crime Officer, who confirmed this to Ghana News
Agency did not give details, but said the police was
investigating the case.
He said the police was also investigating the authenticity
of both the medical and police reports.
The police reports were allegedly prepared by Ejura police
and the medical reports by medical practitioners at Komfo
Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
However, Mr Eldon M.A. Otu, Ashanti Regional Area Manager of
the Company, said sometime in September last year, Ayarkwa
and Rabiatu submitted claims for processing in an accident
involving an Asia Cosmos bus with registration number GR
8826 N on the Ejura-Nkoranza road.
He said in June this year, Afua Sarpong, Rudolf Osei, Isaac
Owusu and Kwabena Konadu also put in claims for compensation
on the same accident.
Mr Otu said after a careful study of the police and medical
reports as well as the sworn affidavits as part of the
normal routine investigations on claims, it was detected
that one person used the same typewriter to type all the
documents while the address of all the claimants were also
the same as that of the agent, Osei Owusu.
It was also discovered that the reports were photocopied
before the medical and police officers signed them.
Mr Otu said the company's investigators became suspicious
and wrote to the Chief Executive Officer of KATH to confirm
the authenticity of the medical reports.
He said KATH authorities denied any knowledge of the reports
and that heightened the suspicion of the investigators.
Mr Otu said the police was informed about the deal and
called the suspects to come to the company's offices last
Thursday, July 12 to collect their claims.
He said on their arrival, the police arrested them for
investigations.
GNA
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