The son of former Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, Abdul Inusah, has refuted the fraud and money laundering charges levelled against him in the United States(US).
According to him, he is innocent of all the charges as he has committed no crime.
He said he received an indictment filed on 27 April 2021, charging him on two counts – 20,000-dollar wire fraud and receipt of stolen money of the same amount.
Mr. Inusah said he was offered several plea deals but refused them because “you only accept plea deals if you have committed a crime”.
A situation he said makes the case against him a prejudiced one.
The young Inusah explained that he was roped into the case because nine of his colleagues who were linked to him because he bought vehicles for them in 2018, while they were all students, were arrested for romance fraud.
He described the reports about the case in the Ghanaian media as “half-truths”.
“My utmost problem right now will be my family and friends affected by these half-truth publications, with the utmost respect because I don’t want to discredit anybody’s work.”
“But these are half-truths, and people’s lives in Ghana are being affected, especially my family and loved ones, and I would like to apologize to them that they should take heart and keep having faith that their brother and son is innocent and will soon be a free man and we will rejoice and jubilate with the people of Ghana,” the 31-year-old said told Asaase Radio.
Background
Abdul Inusah, the son of former Tamale Central MP Inusah Fuseini, has been charged with fraud and money laundering in the United States.
The 31-year-old was part of a conspiracy that targeted victims using false personas via email, text messaging, online dating, and social media websites.
Confirming the news, the former Ghanaian legislator said it was a conspiracy against his son.
According to him, his son’s documents were used to perpetrate a crime, resulting in the charges.
“As a father, my son told me that one of his college students wanted a car, and he has documents that allow him to auction vehicles, and it turns out the student was involved in a romance fraud,” the former MP told Asaase Radio.
He said he is “terribly disappointed” about the development.
According to a statement issued by the US Department of Justice, Inusah will be sentenced on 21 November 2022 and faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison.
“After three days of deliberation, a federal jury convicted Abdul Inusah, 31, of Ghana, for his role in a Huntington-based scheme that defrauded individuals in multiple states through the use of false online personas,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.
“The amount included $48,000 to pay overdue taxes on a nonexistent gold inheritance in Ghana and $21,000 wired to Bitsav Supply LLC, a shell company set up by Inusah. Another false persona, ‘Grace’, persuaded a Washington resident to wire funds so ‘Grace’ could maintain her South African cocoa plantation and move to the United States to marry the victim. Other victims of the false personas included residents of Ohio and Florida, “
“The jury found Inusah guilty of receipt of stolen money, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of wire fraud. The wire fraud counts involve a pair of $2,000 Zelle wire transfers to Inusah from the money obtained using the ‘Miarama’ false persona in January 2019,” the statement added.