Shubham Sharma gets five years for fake cash

A five-year prison sentence just landed on a manager who swapped his boss's real cash with stacks of counterfeit bills.

Shubham Sharma's counterfeit swap scheme

• Sharma pocketed genuine money, replacing it with fakes.
• Fake GH¢200 notes totaled nearly GH¢2 million.
• Bogus US$100 bills hit around US$191,900.
• His employer manufactures air fresheners in Accra.

How the scheme went down

• Sharma broke into the company safe mid-trip.
• Real dollars got switched out for counterfeit ones.
• Large sums of Ghana cedis were similarly replaced.
• The Bank of Ghana verified that every seized note was fake.

Sentencing and what comes next

• An Accra Circuit Court handed down concurrent terms.
• Sharma already sat in custody for over nine months.
• Destruction of all forged notes was court-ordered.
• Deportation follows once his sentence wraps up.