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34-year-old Ghanaian woman jailed 70 months in the United States for money laundering
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Date: Jul - 04 - 2021 , 09:59
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A Ghanaian woman has been sentenced by a US Court to 70 months in prison for conspiring to launder millions of dollars of fraud proceeds from business email compromises and romance scams.
Mensah was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $202,964 and pay restitution of $1,505,519 to victims.
Deborah Mensah was extradited from Ghana to the United States on August 21, 2020. She pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering on April 2, 2021.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “Deborah Mensah was a member of an international criminal enterprise that stole millions of dollars from businesses and vulnerable individuals across the United States, and laundered that money through a network of bank accounts in the Bronx. Having previously been extradited from Ghana, Deborah Mensah has now been sentenced to a term in a U.S. prison for her crime.”
The suspect who was extradited from Ghana to the US on August 21, 2020, pleaded guilty in court on April 2, 2021, before US District Judge Denise L. Cote, conspiring to commit money laundering. A Manhattan US Attorney Audrey Strauss said Deborah Mensah was a member of an international criminal enterprise that stole millions of dollars from businesses and vulnerable individuals across the United States, and laundered that money through a network of bank accounts in the Bronx. Having previously been extradited from Ghana, Deborah Mensah has now been sentenced to a term in a U.S. prison for her crime. Deborah Mensah was a member of a criminal enterprise based in Ghana from about 2014 to about 2018, her indictment and other public filings in the case published on the US Department of Justice website, Ghanaweb reported.
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Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced that ALHASSAN IDDRIS LARI, a/k/a Hassan Lari, pled guilty today to conspiring to commit money laundering and operating an unlawful money transmitting business, in connection with his involvement from at least in or about 2014 through in or about 2020 with a Ghana-based criminal enterprise that has fraudulently obtained millions of dollars through business email compromises and romance scams that targeted the elderly. The plea was entered in front of U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels. LARI is the seventh defendant to plead guilty in the case.
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