The Ghana Police Service has arrested a fake doctor, Fredrick Papa Kow-Assifuah, for impersonating a medical doctor and defrauding unsuspecting victims under the pretext of securing international travel opportunities for them.
He was arrested on Thursday, June 6, 2025, at Kasoa Crispo City in the Central Region, following an intelligence-led operation carried out by personnel of the Police Intelligence Directorate (PID) Headquarters.
According to the Ghana Police Service, he admitted to impersonating a medical doctor at the United Brain Hospital located at Mallam, a suburb of Accra. He further confessed to using this fake identity to engage women online, initiate intimate relationships, and defraud them under the guise of facilitating travel arrangements to Europe.
At the time of his arrest, the police indicated that he was fully dressed in a white lab coat with a stethoscope around his neck while waiting to meet another potential victim he had lured online.
A search conducted at the scene led to the retrieval of several medical items, including two stethoscopes, three intravenous (IV) drips, five syringes, two sample bottles, one roll of plaster, six bottles of vaccines, one Ghanaian passport, and cash amounting to GH¢8,500.00.
He is currently assisting the police with investigations and will be arraigned before court in the coming days