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Nigeria’s embattled Accountant-General has been suspended indefinitely amid a corruption allegation leveled against him by the country’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ahmed Idris’s suspension according to government was to allow for proper investigation of the claims. He was arrested after being linked to fraud, money …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh. Etteh is being grilled by EFCC’s special duties unit for her alleged involvement in a solar power electrification scam in Akwa Ibom State worth N240 million. The former speaker was said …

  In 2016, the future looked bleak for young Lawrence Selorm Attipoe. At age 19 and a Level 200 student at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), he was being accused of robbery, indecent assault, and defrauding by false pretences. But fate had different fortunes for him. Because he …

An Accra Circuit Court has granted GHC6 million bail with three sureties to Stephen Arthur over an alleged attempt to defraud Fidelity Bank Limited of GHC2,100,000 belonging to customers. One of the sureties, the court ordered, should be justified with landed property. Three of his accomplices: Nicholas Gyekye, Ahmed Ansah …

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has arrested four persons who have been engaged in SIM swap fraud. The action was undertaken by the EOCO in collaboration with the Ghana Association of Banks. According to hdfc.com, SIM swap fraud means changing mobile SIM cards. If this is done without …

Accra Circuit Court 10, presided over by Mrs Evelyn Asamoah has sentenced one Christopher Adomey to 15 months imprisonment for defrauding by false pretences. Adomey was given the sentence after going through full trial of pleading not guilty to the charges of defrauding by false pretences and conspiracy to commit …

An American Cybercrime expert, Gar Warner, has shot down some fresh claims levelled against popular Nigerian fraud suspect, Hushpuppi, for allegedly laundering money worth $400,000 while in jail. Gar Warner whose attention was drawn to the reportage on Twitter labelled as fake the documents making rounds on social media. According …

New charges have been filed against apprehended Nigerian fraudster and influencer, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi for allegedly committing fraud and laundering more than $400,000 while in jail in the United States of America. The news was reported by verified Nigerian blog, ‘Instablog9ja’, with some documents stating that a …

Michael Ayittey Okai, aka “Ayittey Powers”, a boxer, has appeared before a Kaneshie District Court for allegedly defrauding a building contractor of GH¢45,000. Ayittey Powers allegedly collected the amount to secure the contractor an Australian Visa and include him in his team for a boxing contest in Australia, but failed …

The scandalous trade they were engaged in earned them the names, ‘money mules’ but what makes the news of Linda Mbimadong and Richard Broni an ironic one is that they were not the main guys in the fraud case they have been found guilty in. Call them the middlemen and …