Two Ghanaian-US citizens named Kelvin Nkwantabisa and Justice Amoh have been arrested by U.S. Marshals in Broward County in the United States for wire fraud, MyNewsGh.com can confirm.
The two with at least three other accomplices were allegedly involved in a multi-million-dollar scheme targeting businesses in South Florida and across the globe by compromising their email systems, according to a federal indictment made public on Friday reported by Chris Gothner of Local 10.
If convicted, they, together with other co-conspirators face more than 30 years in prison.
Kelvin Nkwantabisa who is age 31 from Atlanta allegedly actively collaborated with Justice Amoh of Bronx to swindle multiple person of various amounts at various times worth over US$7million.
Nkwantabisa who has aliases such as “Kevin Brown” and “KO” remained in prison in the Broward Main Jail as he faced six federal charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Amoh and Nkwantabisa who both schooled in Ghana left the country after their secondary education to settle in the US where the alleged crimes took place.
The case which is being prosecuted in the Southern District of Florida has Justice Amoh, also known as “Samuel Andrews,” facing charges as well.
Other co-conspirators in the wire fraud include John Jouissance, of Canal Winchester, Ohio; and Leshea Moore, also known as “Deborah Green,” of Acworth, Georgia.
The federal indictment also mentions other unnamed co-conspirators.
Details of crimes; victims from US, New Zealand
The indictment states that co-conspirators compromised victims’ business email accounts “for the purpose of monitoring and intercepting emails, specifically those discussing wire transfer payments.”
Pretending to be legitimate business partners, the co-conspirators sent emails “containing false and fraudulent requests for payment and wire instructions to victims” that induced the victims to transfer money into bank accounts the group controlled, prosecutors allege.
Those entities wired more than $7 million to bank accounts controlled by the quartet and other co-conspirators.
The group facing charges, as well as their co-conspirators, opened “shell companies and bank accounts in the names of those shell companies for the purpose of receiving stolen victim funds,” prosecutors allege.
Authorities said the con went on from as early as August 2022 and continued through this March
The Coral Springs company alone lost more than $1.3 million to the scheme, according to the indictment.
Nkwantabisa appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Thursday, according to court records. He’s scheduled for an arraignment and detention hearing in front of a magistrate judge next Thursday.
Local 10 News has contacted his listed attorney, Miami criminal defense lawyer Sherri Romano, seeking comment on the case.
According to federal court records, Amoh and Jouissance were also taken into custody in New York and Ohio, respectively, this week.
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