Seven QNet promoters have been arrested in Togo’s capital metropolis Lome.
As per a June twenty eighth press-release from Togo’s Nationwide Police;
On June 20, 2023, the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police caught seven (07) people; three Togolians and 4 Malians.
They belong to a felony community engaged in fraud and human trafficking by becoming a member of an unlawful community advertising and marketing firm referred to as QNET.
The Togo Nationwide Police declare the QNet promoters “posed as large businessmen” and focused unemployed younger folks in Burkina, Mali and Togo.
Younger folks had been lured to Lome on the promise of employment. After arriving nonetheless, they had been successfully kidnapped and lower off from their households.
The QNet scammers pressured the victims to enroll in the pyramid scheme, after which pressured them to recruit new victims into QNet.
Every sufferer should pay between 500,000 and three,000,000 CFA as a coaching price. Individuals trapped by this community of criminals are stripped of their property.
To get out of this misadventure, each sufferer should, in flip, lure others into the identical lure. If profitable, for every new “take”, he’s paid a portion of the subscription price.
A raid on QNet’s headquarters in Lome revealed 73 Togolese and 21 foreigners being held hostage.
Paperwork seized reveal that these people collected the quantity of F20.000.000 from their victims (~$33,256 USD).
One of many culprits owns 5 buildings and several other plots of land in Lomé.
Upon being interrogated, the QNet promoters admitted to fraud and acknowledged they’re a part of a gaggle that operates in “a number of international locations within the sub-region”.
The promoters suggesting their scamming was being coordinated by a “felony community”, run from QNet’s headquarters in Malaysia.
The seven suspects have been charged with fraud and human trafficking.
Togo neighbours Ghana, a rustic with an extended historical past of QNet hostage recruitment scams. In February 2023, sixty QNet scammers had been arrested in Ghana for violating a nationwide ban on the corporate.
The victims had been lured to Ghana on the promise of employment within the mining, sports activities and meals industrys, solely to be kidnapped and compelled to advertise QNet.
It appears the QNet scammers may need moved on from Ghana to Togo. It’s seemingly they may proceed to kidnap victims till Togolese authorities provoke an analogous nation-wide QNet ban.
The QNet pyramid scheme is run out of Malaysia by Vijay Eswaran (proper).
So long as they obtain their lower of the charges kidnapped victims are pressured to pay, QNet turns a blind eye to human trafficking fraud throughout Africa.
Since its launch in 1998, Malaysian authorities have didn’t take motion in opposition to QNet and Eswaran.
