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 claimed to have been defrauded of some €15,000 after being lured into a virtual relationship that turned out to be fake.