Top Ashanti Chief Cited In Multiple Visa Fraud Of Over CANADIAN $600,000

Nana Osei Kwame Ababio, Tetremhene Of The Tetrem Traditional Area, Ashanti Region

Reliable information chanced upon by your incontrovertible ModernGhana have given strong credence that one of the most influential traditional rulers in the Ashanti Region, Nana Osei Kwame Ababio, Tetremhene Of The Tetrem Traditional Area, within the region is wanted by some Ghanaians in Canada for Multiple Visa Fraud running to the tune of about Canadian$600,000

Reports indicate that the Ashanti chief in question mobilized the money from about 30 unsuspecting Ghanaians living in Canada who wanted their wives and other family members to join them in Canada.

The victims revealed that Nana Osei Kwame Ababio promised to add their relations to his traditional delegation or entourage to bring them to Canada but have since 2011 not fulfilled his side of the bargain and has bolted away with the cash.

According to sources, the chief turned visa contractor visited Toronto last two years after which he decided to start smuggling illegal immigrants into Canada.

He therefore entered into a contract with the victims who live in Toronto but wanted their husbands, wives, sisters, brothers and loved ones to join them.

They were made to pay between CAN$8,000 to CAN$10,000 dollars to cover processing of documents for visa, medicals, tickets and passport which they all paid in full.

The chief turned visa contractor told the victims that the Canadian embassy in Accra was prepared to grant up to 30 members of his retinue visa and wanted to use the opportunity offered him to cover members of the victims to get visa to Canada.

It turned out that this chief who can move the king of Ashanti Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to attend events in his traditional area was only deceiving them.

All attempts to reach him on phone have not been successful as he either do not pick international calls suspecting it might be coming from his victims in Canada giving his pursuers the only option to leave a message on his phone but even that he does not call back.

The visa contractor, who recently held a durbar to celebrate a speech and prize giving day in his town which was attended by the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is believed to be hiding in and around his house either in Accra or in his hometown in the Ashanti Region.

Several attempts by the victims to get him in his house in Accra or in his home town in the Ashanti Region to retrieve their monies have proved futile.

Following this revelation, the victims have mounted a wild hunt for the Tetremhene from all corners of the world.

“We are keeping his name for now giving him the chance to do justice to us by paying back our money as soon as possible. If by the first quarter of the year 2013, he fails to refund our monies, we will go all out to smoke him out from his hole like a rat,” one of the victims hinted.