Woman caught with GH¢200 and GH¢100 counterfeits at Assin Fosu market rescued by police from mob action

Mary Kortey, besides known arsenic Akweley, claiming to beryllium from Kwashieman successful Accra, had stormed the Assin Fosu caller marketplace and ordered plentifulness of foodstuffs.

She had successful her possession plentifulness of GH¢100 and GH¢200 notes, and that was what she was utilizing to wage for the nutrient items she had ordered from assorted marketplace women.

According to immoderate eyewitnesses, Mary paid for immoderate of the foodstuffs and different goods utilizing the GH¢100 and GH¢200 notes she had connected her.

A fewer minutes later, aggregate traders realized they had each received what they suspected was counterfeit notes from the aforesaid woman, prompting them to face and physically battle her.

According to the eyewitnesses, the marketplace women gave her immoderate beatings earlier the constabulary arrived to disperse the aggravated assemblage to rescue her.

A hunt conducted connected the fishy led to the find of much of the said counterfeit amounting to GH¢1,900.

Some traders said that it was astir the 3rd clip the pistillate had utilized counterfeit wealth astatine the aforesaid market.

They told Graphic Online that the fishy feigned intelligence illness, undressing and behaving erratically astatine the constabulary presumption successful an effort to debar being detained.

The Assin Fosu District Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Rosemond Duncan, connected his portion said during archetypal interrogation by the police, the fishy alleged the suspected counterfeit was fixed to her by her boyfriend, identified lone arsenic Evans.

The Assin Fosu territory constabulary bid has launched investigations into the case.