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The United States has arrested six alleged members of an international fraud and money-laundering ring that deployed spoofing, catfishing, and COVID-19 relief scams to con victims out of $55m. The defendants are accused of creating fake identities to trick companies, the Small Business Administration (SBA), and old folks searching for romance online into wiring funds to bank accounts controlled by a criminal enterprise. Thirty-five-year-old Farouk Appiedu was arrested on October 18 in Queens,...

They are members of a Ghana-based criminal enterprise and laundered money from fraud schemes including romance scams, which targeted the elderly; fraudulent small business loans and email compromises against businesses and individuals located across the US. The suspects include Faisal Ali, aka Clarence Graveley, 34; Sadick Edusei Kissi, Farouk Appiedu, 35; Celvin Freeman, 47; Fred Asante, 35; and Lord Aning, 28; a statement by the United States Department for Justice revealed. ...

  US Authorities have arrested six Ghanaians based in the USA in connection with their roles in a fraud and money laundering conspiracy. The six, said to be members of a criminal enterprise based in Ghana, allegedly laundered more than $50 million, which primarily consisted of proceeds of fraud schemes from business email compromises, romance scams targeting elderly and fraudulent small business loans for COVID-19 relief. The six through their criminal enterprise are alleged to have committed ...

Six US-based Ghanaians have been arrested by the US authorities for being connected with a money laundering and fraud conspiracy scheme.