Abdul Inusah, the son of the former MP for Tamale Central Inusah Fuseini, charged in the US for alleged fraud and money laundering is optimistic he will soon be freed.
Speaking on Accra-based Asaase radio, the 31-year-old claimed he is innocent of all the charges leveled against him, and expressed worry about what he says is the half-truth bought into by the Ghanaian public in his case.
“My utmost worry right now is not fighting my case or proving my innocence to the Ghanaian public.
“My very utmost problem right now will be my family and friends who have been affected by these half truth publications, with 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 love ones, and I would like to apologise 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,” an optimistic Inusah said.
The son of former Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, has been convicted by a United States court of fraud and money laundering.
Per evidence at trial, Abdul Inusah, 31, was part of a conspiracy that targeted victims using false personas via email, text messaging, and online dating and social media websites.
Some of them involve “his role in a Huntington-based scheme that defrauded individuals in multiple states through the use of false online personas.”
“The amount included $48,000 to pay overdue taxes on a non-existent 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 Department of Justice said.
In the statement published on the DOJ’s website, the jury is said to have found the former MP’s son “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.
Abdul faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison and is expected to be sentenced on November 21, 2022.