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Convicted Bronx fraudster who fled to Ghana prior to serving sentence is extradited to the United States

August 6, 2021 Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jacqueline Maguire, the Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and Thomas Fattorusso, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ("IRS-CI"), announced that Tourey Ahmed Rufai, a/k "Joe Thompson," a/k/a "Joe Terry," a/k/a "Rufai A Tourey," a/k/a "Ahmed Rufai Tourey," who was previously sentenced to four years in prison and fled to the Republic of Ghana ("Ghana") prior to surrendering to serve his sentence, was arrested in Ghana on April 14, 2021, and extradited to the United States earlier today to serve his sentence. Rufai's sentence of four years was imposed by U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote on April 12, 2019, in connection with Rufai's participation in a fraud ....

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Ghanaian 'sakawa' woman ordered to repay $1.5m to victims


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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. ....

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