The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested a 66-year-old Ghanaian national, Morrison Nyarku Obeng, for allegedly obtaining $8,325 from the Government of the Republic of Zambia under false pretenses.
In a statement, DEC public relations officer Allan Tamba says Obeng fraudulently claimed to be an expatriate teacher at a named school in Lusaka.
But verification exercises later revealed that he was not entitled to the outstanding payments he received.
The suspect has since been charged with money laundering involving the said amount.
By Darius Choonya.
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