November 2019 was the deciding moment. I had a very good lawyer. He had tried very hard just to defend me and get me exonerated. It was an extremely difficult one to pull off. The set up was perfectly done. Sampson, my subordinate, knew all about how I did my work. I had in my mind, I was grooming him to be better than me. I trusted him so much and that trust became my downfall.
Based on the trust I had for him, I usually pay little attention to the documents he brings to me for vetting and signing, I usually trusted him to do the right thing, which was always the case, except when he decided to frame me. He had been paying attention to the preferential treatment I had been giving him and decided to capitalize on it.
He knew I was hardly going to pay attention to the documents he brought to my desk for final approval and signing for funds to be transferred. He therefore engineered to siphon GHC 3 million from the accounts of our clients.
This was a fact only know to me because I had made him work on those files, but that wasn't explanation enough to set me free off the charges.
My lawyer and I tried to plead with him to just speak the truth and we would support him with a negligence claim, but he had only one intention; bring me down and take my place.
Selestine and I became very close. She indirectly became a paralegal to my lawyer, supporting with her experience in every little way.
She assisted my lawyer with his investigations and amidst that stumbled upon evidence which was a game changer.
It was that evidence that got me exonerated during the final hearing in November.
It was a trail of emails shared amongst Sampson and his counterparts. It was a detailed plan of how they were going to pull off the whole scheme. It contained the amounts they intended to transfer from the accounts of each of the companies.
They had hired a cyber crime expert to clone the accounts of the company. The stolen funds, after the paper works were done and blindly signed by me, were transferred into the clone accounts.
The clone accounts were been perfectly managed by the cyber crime expert alongside the original account of the companies. It became very difficult for them to detect the fraud, until they decided to transfer the amount of GHC 3 million to an off shore account and make me take the fall for it.
December 2019 I was a free man. Sampson and his team were arrested and made to serve a jail term of 10year each after refund of the GHC 3 million to the accounts of the companies.
My story was the headline of the financial papers for almost the year 2019. It was closely monitored since majority of the people wanted to know if I was a genuine professional or a dirty one all this while.
The final article which covered my exoneration covered the front page of all most all the dailies in the country.