33-year-old staff of Stanbic Bank Ghana has duped some customers of the bank to the tune of GHc 900,000.

Martha Amakye is an outsourced worker of the bank form Noswall Management Service, a recruitment agency. She has been declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service after she absconded.

Her pictures have also been posted on the Facebook timeline of Stanbic Bank. A message attached to the picture indicates that she was a Personal Solutions Consultant at the Tema Community 1 branch in Accra.

The attached message further urges the general public to help locate her.

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Amakye allegedly collected various sums of monies from clients of the bank between 2015 and 2016 with the notion of investing them in fixed deposits.

She is reported to have promised the customers interest rate of between 18 and 20 percent per month without the consent of the management of the bank. This got her many clients especially because of the high interest rate.

Most of the funds are reported to have been paid in the banking hall where Amakye issued the victims with suspected fake deposits.

The Commercial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service and the Financial Crime Control Unit of the bank have launched an investigation into the matter.

She allegedly paid what she claimed to be interest accrued from the fixed deposit investment to some of the initial investors but retained the principal amounts, with the explanation that the amount would be reinvested.

This earned her more clients at the Tema Community 1 branch of the Stanbic Bank. The bank has urged its customers to insist on approved receipts after they perform any transactions at any of their branched nationwide to avoid such incidents.

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