Police Arrest Two Agents of Qnet Marketing Company in Koforidua
About a thousand youth in Koforidua and some West African Nationals risk being scammed by agents of Qnet operating in the Eastern regional capital Koforidua.
Joana Somiah 
Source from the Eastern Regional Police Public Relations office indicates that the Police has arrested Two Agents of Qnet, a network marketing company for allegedly defrauding a man for a sum of four thousand, six hundred Ghana cedis (Ghc4,600).
The source disclosed that the suspects, David Boahene, age 31, and Abu Bonsare, 26 of age.
The victim, one Owusu Sekyere, a 35-year-old and a sand winner, stated that the suspect, David Boahene is his sister’s boyfriend, and under pretences told him, he will secure a well-paid job at Quest International company which will fetch him GHc550 a week, that might change his life.
According to him, his brother-in-law asked him to pay Ghc4,600 to open a dollar account for him to receive the said weekly amount of GHs550.
Weeks after paying the said amount, and without receiving any weekly returns, Owusu Sekyere lodged a former complaint at the Eastern Regional Police CID after suspicion that he has been defrauded.
The police said, this led to the arrest of David Boahene, who admitted collecting the said amount from the complainant but stated, he gave the said money to his boss – Abu Bonsare.
Police proceeded to arrest the said boss on June 7, 2021, but he told the police officers that the money has been used to purchase a product online on behalf of the complainant though unaware.
The two suspects were on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, remanded by the Koforidua District Court B also known as Cocoase Court, presided over by Her Honour Mercy Kotei.
Meanwhile, complaints of alleged defrauding by pretence by agents of Qnet in Koforidua are being investigated by the Police while others are in Court, the police emphasized.
The police have also asked Security and Exchange Commission to investigate Qnet over possible scams of hundreds of youth in Koforidua.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been urged to investigate the business module of agents of Qnet Ghana, a network marketing company.
About a thousand youth in Koforidua and some West African Nationals risk being scammed by agents of Qnet operating in the Eastern regional capital Koforidua.
William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent
