Four persons were charged by the police for allegedly stealing US$9,500 from the Lion Stationery Store Management’s account at Finbank and remanded the defendants at the Monrovia Central Prison pending court trial.
CEOAFRICA.com gathered that Jesse O. Gee, Bobby Payne, Rufus Kaba and Joseph Gray, were booked on three counts of criminal conspiracy, forgery and theft of property, based on a complaint filed by Madam Jacqueline Massaquoi of Finbank’s 17th Street Sinkor Branch.
According to her, they used the blank cheque to forge the signature of Lion Stationery Store Management and wrote US$9, 500 using the account number to be paid to suspect Joseph Gray.
Police charge sheet claims that the four accused men voluntarily admitted to the crime saying they did the act collectively.
Joseph Gray said: “Bobby Payne alias Master P told me that he had a blank cheque but he wanted me to cash it for him because he did not have a valid ID Card.”
From his side of the story, Rufus Kaba said: “I willingly told police investigators that defendants Master P and Joseph Gray have been in constant contact with me on phone. Mt. Gray gave a passport size photo to suspect Master P to fix an ID card in order to enable him withdraw the amount of US$9,500 from Finbank from a blank cheque they got from defendant Jesse O.Gee, an employee of Finbank on Broad Street.”
