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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 Afghanistan. But investigators discovered that the money was being deposited in local bank accounts and eve...

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 Malta's first romance fraud case 23 April 2021, 2:59pm by Matthew Agius Five persons accused in Malta's 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 ordered to observe a curfew and sign a bail book every day. Prominent retired local footballer Sunday Eb...

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 and March.  Investigators targeted the three suspects following a report by an elderly woman who c...

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 deployment. As the virtual relationship progressed, the woman transferred small sums of money to the man, by...