Three QNet scammers have been jailed in Ghana, after a grotesque ruse to con members of the family out of cash got here undone.
Etornam Dzenu, Stephen Sovor, Justice Noamesi and Isabella Bekinane are all QNet promoters in Ghana.
As reported by Information Ghana. quoting Public Prosecutors;
About eight months in the past, Isabella left Accra to remain at Adweso in Koforidua searching for a job.
There Isabella met and began relationship Dzenu, who launched her to QNet.
Isabella acquired into Q-Internet Restricted as a community marketer the place she turn into buddies with Dzenu, Sovor and Noamesi.
QNet is a pyramid scheme. As soon as recruited, individuals need to pay as much as stay within the rip-off. That is how QNet promoters earn cash.
Quickly Isabella discovered herself out of funds.
Isabella needed capital to associate within the community advertising enterprise and she or he got here up with a plan to pretend and stage her kidnapping to acquire cash from her father.
Isabella later knowledgeable Dzenu about it. Dzenu additionally knowledgeable the Sovor and Noamesi to help Isabella to realize her aim.
All of the accused individuals got here along with a plan for Isabella to tell her mother and father that she was going to Accra.
On July 4th Isabella referred to as her sister to inform her she was going to Accra to “search for a job to earn some cash”. Isabella then turned her telephone off.
Her sister tried to contact her all through the week, unsuccessfully.
On July eleventh, Isabella gave her telephone to Noamesi, who contacted Isabella’s household with the kidnapping ruse.
Noamesi used Isabella’s telephone to name her sister to tell her that “they’re kidnappers they usually have kidnapped Isabella and that the household ought to ship a ransom of GHS8,000 to Isabella’s Momo account and they’re giving the household 48 hours.
GHS 8000 is presently ~$920 USD.
After making contact, Isabella’s telephone was once more turned off.
On July twelfth Isabella’s sister and brother filed a grievance with the Lacking Individuals Unit.
Prosecution mentioned the next day, Dzenu used Isabella’s telephone to ship an SMS message to Eunice to remind her that “their time is restricted” including that if after 48 hours, they don’t hear from the household, they may minimize off Isabella’s arms.
Isabella’s sister requested a photograph of her, as proof she was nonetheless alive.
Dzenu, Sovor and Noamesi despatched Isabella to an uncompleted faculty constructing, tied her up and Dzenu took an image of Isabella with handwritten dated (July 13, 2022).
The Image of Isabella was despatched by Dzenu by means of Isabella’s WhatsApp line as requested.
Figuring out that Isabella was in a relationship with Dzenu, her sister referred to as him searching for data.
He knowledgeable (her) that Isabella informed him that she was going to Accra and that he had not heard from her since she left.
Following an investigation and try to find Isabella, police ultimately tracked her all the way down to Stephen Sovor’s dwelling on July 18th.
Throughout interrogation, accused individuals informed the Police concerning the numerous roles they performed.
The 4 accused have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretenses.
All 4 suspect pled responsible. Dzenu, Sovor and Noamesi have been every sentenced to 48 months in jail earlier this week.
Isabella’s sentencing has been deferred pending a being pregnant take a look at. It’s unclear whether or not Dzenu is the daddy.
Between pretend kidnappings like this, actual kidnappings of recruited hostages and immigration fraud, QNet promotion in Ghana has been problematic for years.
Makes an attempt by native authorities to get QNet banned nationwide are believed to have been prevented by authorities officers.
In March 2021 Joe Tackie, Chief Director of the Ministry of Enterprise Growth, said it was ‘glad to have QNET in Ghana for the lengthy haul.’
For his or her half, QNet turns a blind eye to fraud in Ghana. Executives aren’t involved so long as cash flows into the corporate.
