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Ghana loses $19.8m through fraudulent activities
February 18, 2021 ACP Herbert Gustav Yankson,Director of Child Protection Digital Forensic Laboratory and Cybercrime Unit
Ghana has lost $19,800,000 through fraud and criminal activities, last year, as against at least $11 million the previous year, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr Herbert Gustav Yankson, Director of the Child Protection Digital Laboratory and Cybercrime Unit, has disclosed.
Additionally, the unit recovered $101,000, six cars, three plots of land bought with proceeds of fraud.
ACP Dr Yankson, in an interview with the Ghanaian Times in Accra, yesterday, said cases reported to the unit included cyber fraud, sex image abuse, child pornography and Facebook account crime, and the victims or complainants were males.