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TO ALL BARBADIANS.

Please beware of the man in this pic.
He is a dishonest criminal pretending to be a businessman.
He has scammed my sister out of thousands of dollars under the pretense he was designing a container for her new business venture.
Unfortunately, we found out he has done the same to other hard-working honest Barbadians.

This criminal operates under the business name of "Containers and Trailers".
The police, his bank, and all related organization have been notified of his criminal activity today.
He is dangerous and needs to be stopped.
PLEASE DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS MAN

His name is EVAN CHRISTOPHER BROOKS...

 An Accra Circuit Court has sen­tenced a business­man to a jail term of 12 months for bigamy.

Emmanuel Kodjo Narh got married to a nurse resident in the United States while still legally married to his wife in Ghana.

The court presided over by Mrs Christina Cann, however, acquitted Narh on the charge of the threat of harm.

The court noted that the prose­cution had been able to prove the offence of bigamy, but they were unable to prove the charge of the threat of harm.

The case of prosecution is that the complainant whose name is withheld is a nurse resident in the USA and a native of Odumase Krobo.

Sometime in June 2015, while the complainant was in the USA, she received a call from her care­taker in Ghana that a road was being constructed on her parcel of land.

The prosecution said the care­taker then provided five phone numbers including Narh’s to the complainant.

It said the complainant called the numbers and Narh introduced himself and promised to address the challenge on the land.

The prosecution said through interactions, the complainant and Narh became friends.

Narh called the complainant daily to check up on her.

In August 2015, Narh pro­posed to the complainant, but she indicated that since they did not know themselves well and they had not met in person, she would be coming to Ghana for them to talk about the proposal.

The prosecution said on Oc­tober 26, 2015, the complainant met Narh for the first time on her arrival at the airport.

It said on October 28, 2015, Narh engaged the complainant with a ring and took her to meet his family and some of his workers.

The prosecution said Narh had earlier told the complainant that he had six children with two other women but was married to none of them.

It said the complainant also told Narh that she was also a divorcee.

The prosecution said after the engagement, the complainant went back to the States in November 2015.

It said Narh’s family went to the complainant’s family house for the bridal list and performed the marriage rites in her absence.

The prosecution said the com­plainant returned to Ghana again and went with Narh to Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly where the marriage was subse­quently registered with certificate number LMKMA/MC/2015/18.

It said the complainant later saw another certificate of marriage between Narh and another woman with license number SMC/028/09 dated October 4, 2008.

She confronted Narh on that discovery and indicated that she would no longer continue with the marriage.

On April 24, 2016, the com­plainant’s ‘rival’ attacked and subjected her to physical abuse because she had taken over her husband.

The prosecution said the matter was reported to the Police at Odu­mase and Narh’s other wife was arrested.

It said Narh submitted his wit­ness statement indicating that the two women were his wives. 

Source:GNA

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The man responsible for running the multi-million-pound fraud website iSpoof has been jailed for 13 years and 4 months.

Tejay Fletcher, 35 of Western Gateway, London, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, 18 May.

He previously pleaded guilty to making or supplying articles for use in fraud, encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, possessing criminal property and transferring criminal property.

New Scotland Yard’s Cyber Crime Unit led an international operation that took the network down from the top; dismantling the website, targeting the fraudsters who paid to use its services, and today putting the man running the site behind bars.

The Met’s Cyber and Economic Crime Units co-coordinated the mammoth investigation with City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, Europol, Eurojust, Dutch authorities and the FBI.

iSpoof enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks, tax offices and other official bodies as they attempted to defraud victims who lost millions. Confirmed losses to UK victims is £43 million with estimated global losses in excess of £100 million.

At one stage, almost 20 people every minute of the day were being contacted by scammers hiding behind false identities using the site.

It appears popular Ghanaian socialite cum musician, Mona Faiz Montrage, popularly known as Hajia4Reall may not go down alone if she’s found guilty of fraud in a $2 million romance scam case currently ongoing in the United States.

Hajia4Reall, who was arrested in the United Kingdom and extradited to the US on May 12, 2023, to face six charges, has pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan federal court.

According to Ghana’s Financial Intelligence Centre (IFC), which is working in conjunction with INTERPOL and FBI on the case, all persons within the social and business network of the suspect are now persons of interest in the investigation.

Hajia4Reall is known to particularly have many associates in both entertainment and business circles in Ghana, and was an ambassador for some business brands.

The Deputy Manager of IFC, Shaun Henry Osei, made the disclosure in an interview with Accra-based Starr FM.

“Obviously, she’s not going to be working alone, she’s going to be working in a network. The evidence that you have access to will actually lead you to be able to find out who her greater network is and obviously, if you find her greater network, by instinct you will want to look at those people because then they become persons of interest.

The FIC is Ghana’s national centre for the receipt and analysis of suspicious transaction reports and other information relevant to establish offences of money laundering or terrorist financing and proliferation financing (ML/TF&P) and disseminating actionable intelligence to competent authorities.

The centre is appealing to the public to volunteer relevant information on possible financial crimes for them to take the necessary actions.

“You can report to the FIC for starters. We receive reports from accountable institutions, from individuals so you can make a report and send it via mail and you can even bring it personally. Some of these young guys we see, I know most have been attributed to fraud but some are into very legitimate business. They are into forex trade and other business… Forex trade, I’m not certain what the law says on it, but what I can say is that when it comes to crypto and other things I think as a country we don’t yet have a definitive position on that per what the Bank of Ghana is saying and usually when there’s space like that people are likely to explore.”

The 30-year-old model appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday, May 15 for her alleged involvement in a series of romance schemes targeting older people who lived alone.

She’s set to be released on home detention to her aunt’s New Jersey residence in the coming days on a $500,000 bond with GPS tracking via an ankle monitor, her lawyer and the prosecutor’s office have confirmed.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced the unsealing of a six-count Indictment charging Hajia4Real for her role in a series of romance schemes and for laundering the proceeds of those scheme.

Mona 4Reall is a public figure who rose to fame as an influencer through her Instagram profile, under the username ‘Hajia4Reall,’ which at one point had approximately 3.4 million Instagram followers and was among the top 10 profiles with the most followers in Ghana.

She was arrested in the United Kingdom where she had gone to perform at the Ghana Music Awards UK edition and was en route to Ghana.

According to the court, from 2013 thereabout through to 2019, the influencer was a member of a criminal enterprise based in Ghana that committed a series of frauds against individuals and businesses in the United States, including romance scams that targeted mostly elderly victims.

The prosecution said Hajia received money from several victims of romance frauds whom members of the Enterprise tricked into sending money.

Among the false pretences used to induce victims to send money to Montrage were (i) payments to transport gold to the United States from overseas; (ii) payments to resolve a fake FBI unemployment investigation; and (iii) payments to assist a fake United States army officer in receiving funds from Afghanistan.

The court said in one incident with her victims, Hajia used her real name and spoke to the victim several times by phone, later sending the victim a tribal marriage certificate purporting to show that she and the victim had been married in Ghana.

“The victim sent Montrage approximately 82 wire transfers totalling approximately $89,000 to purportedly help with costs associated with Montrage’s father’s farm in Ghana.”

The court added that “In total, Montrage controlled bank accounts that received over $2 million in fraudulent funds from the Enterprise.”

Source: myjoyonline.com

The Accra Circuit Court One has handed down a judgment, sentencing a Nigerian citizen to eight years of imprisonment with hard labour for impersonating COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah on social media and defrauding unsuspecting individuals.

The convict, Bright Daniels, who was already serving a sentence at the Nsawam Prisons when he committed the crime, initially denied the offence but was found guilty after a full trial.

DSP Emmanuel Nyamekye, Deputy Superintendent of Police, provided the details of the case to the Court, presided over by Mrs Afia Owusua Appiah. The complainant in the case was COP Mrs Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, the former head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and currently serving as the Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).

The offender, Bright Daniels, is a Nigerian national who had previously served a seven-year jail term at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.

The court was informed that Daniels' accomplice, Livinus Amadianaeze Ugwu, who is also a Nigerian and an ex-convict, is currently evading arrest.

According to DSP Nyamekye, in April 2021, COP Addo-Danquah discovered a fake Facebook Messenger account created in her name, using her picture, which was being used to extort money from a police personnel by falsely promising them opportunities to secure slots in United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) missions in Somalia and Sudan.

The individual behind the fake account contacted the victims and instructed them to make payments through a mobile money network.

One of the victims, Detective Chief Inspector Baffoe, paid GH¢10,000.00 to the provided number, which was later withdrawn by Bright Daniels.

Investigations revealed that the phone number used in the scam was traced back to the vicinity of the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern Region.

Further investigations led to the discovery that Daniels was the user of that phone number. The police conducted a search, during which they recovered a Samsung Galaxy A02 phone used by Daniels to communicate with Ugwu, as well as a Tecno feature phone that was used to receive money from Detective Chief Inspector Baffoe.

Forensic examination of the devices revealed that Daniels and Ugwu conspired to exploit the name and photograph of COP Addo-Danquah to fraudulently obtain money from police personnel, promising them slots in the United Nations and African Union Missions in Somalia.

Daniels was found to have obtained the SIM card with the number 02******* that was used to receive money from their victims.

After admitting to the offence, Daniels was charged and brought before the court following the completion of the investigations.

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Socialite Mona 4Reall or Hajia4Reall has been extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom over her alleged involvement in a $2 million romance scam locally called ‘sakawa’ targeting older, single Americans.

According to federal prosecutors, the 30-year-old model appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday, May 15 for her alleged involvement in a series of romance schemes targeting older people who lived alone.

The lady born Mona Faiz Montrage pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Hajia4Reall is set to be released on home detention to her aunt’s New Jersey residence in the coming days on a $500,000 bond with GPS tracking via an ankle monitor, her lawyer and the prosecutor’s office have confirmed.

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced the unsealing of a six-count Indictment charging Hajia4Real for her role in a series of romance schemes and for laundering the proceeds of those schemes.  

Mona 4Reall is a Ghanaian public figure who rose to fame as an influencer through her Instagram profile, under the username “Hajia4Reall,” which at one point had approximately 3.4 million Instagram followers and was among the top 10 profiles with the most followers in Ghana.

She was arrested in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2022, and was extradited from the United Kingdom on May 12, 2023. 

Mona 4Real extradited to US over alleged $2m 'sakawa' (fraud) targeting older single Americans

She was presented before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty, to whom the case is assigned today.

FBI Assistant Director in Charge Michael J. Driscoll said, “We alleged today that Ms. Montrage participated in multiple romance scams – often targeting elderly victims – resulting in more than $2 million in fraudulent funds under her control. 

“Romance scams – especially those that target older individuals – are of major concern. The FBI will be tireless in our efforts to hold fraudsters accountable in the criminal justice system.”

According to the court, from at least in or about 2013 through in or about 2019, the Influencer was a member of a Criminal Enterprise based in Ghana that committed a series of frauds against individuals and businesses in the United States, including romance scams. 

The court said, “Many of the Enterprise’s romance scam victims were vulnerable, older men and women who lived alone. The Enterprise frequently conducted the romance scams by sending the victims emails, text messages, and social media messages that deceived the victims into believing that they were in romantic relationships with a person who had, in fact, a fake identity assumed by members of the Enterprise. 

“Once members of the Enterprise had successfully convinced victims that they were in a romantic relationship and had gained their trust, they convinced the victims, under false pretences, to transfer money to bank accounts the victims believed were controlled by their romantic interests, when, in fact, the bank accounts were controlled by members of the Enterprise.”

The prosecution said, “Montrage received money from several victims of romance frauds whom members of the Enterprise tricked into sending money. Among the false pretences used to induce victims to send money to Montrage were (i) payments to transport gold to the United States from overseas; (ii) payments to resolve a fake FBI unemployment investigation; and (iii) payments to assist a fake United States army officer in receiving funds from Afghanistan.

The court said in one incident with her victims she used her real name and spoke to the victim several times by phone. 

“Montrage later sent the victim a tribal marriage certificate purporting to show that Montrage and the victim had been married in Ghana. 

“The victim sent Montrage approximately 82 wire transfers totalling approximately $89,000 to purportedly help with costs associated with Montrage’s father’s farm in Ghana.”

It added that “In total, Montrage controlled bank accounts that received over $2 million in fraudulent funds from the Enterprise.”

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has dragged two electricians to court for using the bar code of a dead employee to defraud unsuspecting customers.

The two, Perry Kumi Asamoah and Samuel Afful Kenneth on January 25, 2023, disconnected an ECG customer at East Legon for allegedly undertaking illegal connection and subsequently demanded her to pay GH₵3,000 for reconnection.

The customer, according to court documents called her husband on phone who sent the two accused persons an amount of GH₵1,500 and the power was restored. The customer later reported the issue to ECG’s Revenue Protection Unit due to suspicious conducts of the suspects.

Perry Kumi Asamoah and Samuel Afful Kenneth, using the same tactic, approached another ECG customer on May 5, 2023 at Ogbojo in Accra.

The customer however, called the ECG office for verification leading to the arrest of the two while another suspect only identified as Isaac managed to escape.

The two were put before an Accra Circuit Court and charged with seven counts of conspiracy, intentionally and knowingly interfering with the supplier’s distribution system of ECG, defrauding by false pretences and forgery.

They both pleaded not guilty and the court presided over by His Honour Bright Samuel Acquah, granted them a bail of GH₵100,000, each with one surety each.

The case was adjourned to June 1, while the prosecution was ordered to file its disclosures.

The brief facts of the case presented by the prosecution led by Paul Asibi Abariga states that on January 25, 2023, the two accused persons and the suspect on the run approached the complainant in her house and introduced themselves as personnel from ECG on metre monitoring operation.

It said the complainant then led the accused persons to where her ECG metre with serial number P18019458 had been mounted and Perry Kumi Asamoah, opened the meter and brought out a component which he showed to the complainant and claimed she did an illegal connection.

“Based on this, the accused persons disconnected the complainant’s power. The complainant pleaded for restoration and the accused persons demanded an amount of GH₵3,000.00 from her to restore the power,” the brief facts state.

It continued that the complainant informed her husband accordingly and he sent Gh₵1,500 through mobile money on 0277388827, Asamoah’s number and the power was restored.

“The complainant who was not satisfied about the conduct of the accused persons reported the matter to ECG Revenue Protection Unit and referred to ECG Investigation Unit for action.”

It further states that on May 5, 2023, the accused persons visited another ECG customer at Obojo in Accra with the same modus and the customer called ECG office for verification which lead to the arrest of Asamoah and Kenneth but Isaac managed to escape.

“During investigation, a search conducted on the two accused person revealed two identity cards bearing their names, photos with the serial numbers 193955 and 193954 respectively. Summons emanated from the ECG which appeared to be forged and one mobile phone which contained the Tigo chip that was used to receive the amount from the complainant’s husband.”

The brief facts added that “Further checks also revealed the Barcode on the two ID cards belonged to one late Kingsley Darko who was a former employee of the ECG. The accused persons in their respective caution statements admitted the offences leveled against them. Efforts are underway to arrest the third accused person.”

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The Ghana Standard Au­thority (GSA) yesterday closed down Fenice Metal Technology Company Limited, producers of electrical cables for the Ghanaian market.

The closure comes in the wake of some alleged fraudulent activ­ities engaged in by the company including fake labelling, sub-stan­dard material usage and lack of certification from the Authority.

The exercise was conducted with the support of personnel of the Ghana Police Service under the command of Assistant Super­intendent of Police (ASP) Shine Awudi.

In all eight persons made up of seven Chinese believed to be managers of the facility and one Nigerian supervisor, were arrested in the operation.

Briefing the media after the operations, the head of enforce­ment at the GSA, Mr George Anti, said the authority picked up intelligence that Fenice Metal Technology Company Limited although registered and producing in Ghana, labelled its products, mostly electrical cables as made in Turkey and distributed them on the Ghanaian market.

He said following the intelli­gence, the authority decided to probe further and based on this, it discovered that the company was actually manufacturing electrical cables without certification.

Furthermore, he said these ca­bles on the market were also sub­standard and not fit for purpose.

Mr Anti said the company failed to produce all the necessary documents that permitted its operations when the team visited the factory.

He said the closure of the factory was necessary to halt the company from further producing as well as make way for further investigations.

This is the second time Fenice Metal Technology Company has been involved in illegal activities.

Recently, the company was cited for bypassing ECG metres and stealing electricity.

The police have arrested a man who has been posing as a military officer with a fake service name WOII Samuel Owusu Dartey in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region of Ghana.

The suspect, who according to victims always had a pistol and handcuff on him, is said to have been tormenting unsuspecting residents, sometimes even in military uniform.

What blew the lid off was through an encounter with one Clifford Pablo Yakah, a private surveyor at Ntankoful in the Sekondi Takoradi metropolis.

The military imposter had been hired by a family to use his position to intimidate the surveyor who was working for a family head on a land issue.

“I’m a private surveyor working on some documents for a family. I was there one day when the family introduced the suspect to me that he was a military officer (WOII Samuel Owusu Dartey) and also works with the Intelligence Unit of the National Security. They said he will be working with me on the land document,” the victim indicated.

He added that the suspect started tormenting him to release the land documents to him or face his anger.

“He came to my house one early morning dressed in military uniform with a pistol and handcuff asking me to dress up and follow him. I obeyed and followed him to the Lands Commission but I was suspicious of his behavior so I called my in-law who is in the military. He was trailed and later arrested. Checks indicate he is not a military officer so he is currently at the Kwesimintsim Police Station assisting investigations,” he added.

A pistol, military uniform, and a list containing names of people he had reportedly extorted money from to be recruited in the military were retrieved from him after a search.

Sources indicate an identification parade will be arranged for other victims to identify him.

Meanwhile, many victims are popping up day after day since his arrest to share their ordeal in his hands.

Source:3news.com

A 25 year woman who is married to a 65 years old man has confessed to having a child with her stepson.

According to the lady, she is currently being blackmailed by her stepson and his mother (ex wife to the 65year old man); the duo are taking advantage of this act and have been drawing endless cash from her .

Her pain is borne by the fact that she was really struggling in life when she met her 65 year husband; she explained that her husband has reposed trust in her and helped her when she was a "nobody".

Narrating her ordeal in an interview with MyNewsGh.com, the lady( name withheld) said she finally fell for her stepson’s antics when he came into the kitchen during his father’s absence and started kissing her from the neck.

“He had in the past been making advances at me. He sends me n*des and also sends P*norgra*hic content but I ignored him. But this time, he came to the kitchen and started kissing me on my neck. I couldn’t resist this one and so he had his way and we slept together.

From that day, we continued our escapades. When his father is in town, we go out of the house, meet and enjoy ourselves and then we come back home but when he’s not in town we do it in my matrimonial bed. We did that till I got pregnant.

When I got pregnant, my husband was very happy I had conceived for him. He does everything for his child and has willed most of his properties to him. But his son who is called Junior insists he is the father of the child. He has blackmailed me and taken monies from me. Now, he has involved his mother who is demanding $50,000 else he tells the father. I am confused and want to end it all because they will not stop coming,” she said.

The lady confessed that she did not love the man she married when she was 25 years but had sympathy for him because of what he did for herself and her family.

Source: MyNewsGh.com

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An online fraudster who conned hundreds of thousands of pounds out of banking customers has been jailed for more than three years following a NCA investigation.

NCA cyber crime investigators identified that Belarusian national Denis Kupcevich, 43, was using stolen identities to commit fraud and open bank accounts through which he would launder the illicit earnings.

Kupcevich was tracked down after NCA officers linked banking details in the name of one of his aliases with Deliveroo deliveries to a flat in Baines Close, South Croydon.

He was placed under surveillance and officers watched as he moved between various high-end hotels and residential properties in London and Poole over a six month period.

Investigators ultimately uncovered that Kupcevich and his criminal associates used the hotels and short term lets as bases for their criminal enterprise. From here, they would contact victims by phone and use social engineering tactics to manipulate them into handing over money.

One victim described how she and her husband were defrauded out of almost £160,000 after an operator purporting to be from the bank called her to say that money needed to be transferred due to a security risk.

Another victim was conned into paying £12,400 for a second hand BMW which never materialised.

Kupcevich went under several aliases, the majority of the time assuming the identity of two men, one a Moldovan national and the other was from Bulgaria. Neither men were aware that their identities had been stolen and Kupcevich used these names to obtain a fake Bulgarian passport and identity card.

These stolen identities were used to create false documents to open numerous bank accounts, through which the stolen money could be laundered

Denis Kupcevich pleaded guilty to all the charges at Southwark Crown Court on 22 September and was jailed for three years and four months at the same court on Tuesday (11 April). He will be deported after serving his sentence.

The glamour model ex-girlfriend of boxer Joe Calzaghe is facing jail after being convicted of money laundering in a £100 million operation to smuggle cash to Dubai.

Jo-Emma Larvin, 44, took suitcases containing around £5m in cash through Heathrow Airport and on to flights to the United Arab Emirates in Autumn 2020.

Larvin, her partner Jonathan Johnson, 55, Amy Harrison, 27, and Beatrice Auty, 26, were all part of an operation to smuggle dirty money out of UK, knowing or suspecting it was the proceeds of criminal conduct as they agreed to act as “money mules”.

Larvin, who dated Welsh boxer Calzaghe for six years before they split in 2009, insisted during her trial that she believed the trips had been authorized by UAE embassy officials, and that the cases contained money and official documents.

But she was convicted by the jury of removing criminal property from the UK.

Judge Sarah Paneth released the guilty defendants on bail until their sentencing hearing.

Gauteng police arrested more than 1700 suspects over the long weekend and recovered 65 unlicensed firearms.

Suspects were arrested during operations and routine police stop and search in various parts of the province.

The perpetrators were found to have committed serious and violent crimes such as murder, attempted murder, robbery, car hijacking, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rape, fraud, and theft. Diligent and intelligent police observation during routine patrols led to the discovery of most firearms.

Police believe these are the firearms that are used during the commission of serious and violent crimes in the province.

ARREST: 5 Men (4 Iegall) arrested for dealing and trading in illegal drugs in Brakpan , Ekurhuleni.

Recovered: suspected stolen property, a firearm, live rounds and a blue light.