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Men accused of running romance scam released on bail after court hears how victim was refunded in full  

Five people accused of having tricked an elderly woman into paying them thousands of euro as part of a romance fraud have been granted bail. The five accused – former footballer Sunday Eboh, Alexandra Pace, Collins Eguavoen, Marvis Iyeke and Tony Ogbonna – were arrested in February after police discovered that a woman had been tricked into sending €58,000 in various transactions to somebody she had met online. The woman was ostensibly sending the money to a US soldier deployed in Afghani...

Sunday Eboh, four others, granted bail on romance fraud case Retired local footballer Sunday Eboh, along with four others, has been released on bail nearly three months after being charged in Maltas first romance fraud case 23 April 2021, 2:59pm by Matthew Agius Five persons accused in Maltas first romance fraud case have been released on bail, nearly three months after being charged. They were released against a deposit of €4,000 and a personal guarantee of €16,000. They were also ordere...

Three suspect fraudsters were remanded in custody on Sunday after pleading not guilty to swindling a woman out of some €15,000 after luring her into a virtual romance that turned out to be a scam.   Oliver Chamberline Chibuike, a 38-year old Nigerian national living at St Paul’s Bay, fellow national 29-year-old Collins Eguavoen and Ayub Ali Khan Mohammed, a 22-year-old Indian national living in Swieqi,  were charged with various acts of money-laundering allegedly committed between January...

A suspect fraudster allegedly involved in a group scam that tricked a woman into transferring some €58,000 to a bogus US soldier stationed in Afghanistan has been granted bail.  Tony Anuforo, a 34-year-old Nigerian national, was arraigned in February alongside three co-nationals and one Maltese woman as the suspects behind the swindle, whereby the unsuspecting victim was first lured into a fake virtual relationship with a fictitious soldier who told her he would travel to Malta upon deployme...

A sixth player in a romance fraud, in which an elderly woman was swindled out of some €58,000, was remanded in custody upon his arraignment on Friday.  Nigerian-born Tabi Ovi, 36, living at Swieqi and working as a taxi driver, was escorted to court and charged with having money-laundering linked to a scam through which the victim was lured into a virtual relationship with a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan.  The man pleaded not guilty to money laundering as well as knowingly receiving pr...

One of Malta’s most prolific Nigerian footballing imports, Sunday Eboh, has been charged with four others in a romance fraud case. Eboh, Maltese national Alexandra Pace, Nigerian nationals Collins Eguavoen, Marvis Iyeke and Tony Ogbonna were arrested late Monday night to be charged with money laundering. Police said that an elderly Maltese woman fell victim to the fraud after engaging in an online relationship with who she thought was an American soldier deployed in Afghanistan. The soldier w...