A magistrate's court at New Edubiase has sentenced a 41-year-old revenue collector to eight months imprisonment for falsification of accounts.
Yeboah Kankam Dacosta pleaded guilty to the charge and asked for leniency.
Police Chief Inspector Emmanuel Akwasi Kwarteng told the court presided over by Mr Stephen Tabire that Yeboah was attached to the Adansi South District office of the Stool Lands Department.
He said last year, the Assembly had information that the accused was using counterfoils of the Assembly's receipt books to extort money from farmers in the area as tribute to the Edubiase chief.
Chief Inspector Kwarteng said what Yeboah did was to issue the original receipts to the farmers without using carbon to produce copies for the Assembly.
The prosecution said the accused would then later use pencil to write 2,000 cedis on all the duplicate copies to render accounts to the Assembly.
He said Yeboah paid only 19,000 cedis to the Assembly out of the 4.170 million cedis he collected from seven farmers, which ranged from 400,000 cedis to 1.2 million cedis.
Chief Inspector Kwarteng said this was, however, detected and the Assembly called in the police to investigate leading to the arrest of the accused who admitted the offence and paid back the money to the police before being put before court.