The police elements at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca were able, on Friday, June 12, to arrest a Ghanaian national, 40 years old. This was in execution of an international arrest warrant issued against him by the judicial authorities in America, for suspicion of involvement in fraud and money laundering.
The suspect was arrested immediately after arriving on a flight, after a check of his information in the Interpol databases revealed that he was the subject of a red notice issued by the International Criminal Police Organization, for suspicion of involvement in fraud. This was through establishing romantic relationships with victims and stealing significant amounts from them in the United States, Ghana, and other countries.
The Ghanaian citizen is also suspected of being involved in large-scale operations to launder money obtained from this criminal activity, which is estimated to be worth millions of dollars through a complex network of financial transfers and international banking transactions.
The suspect was kept in custody while awaiting the resolution of the process for his extradition to the judicial authorities in the United States of America.
The arrest of the suspect comes within the framework of activating bilateral cooperation relations with the American authorities in security fields, as well as within the context of enhancing mechanisms for searching and pursuing wanted persons on an international level for various organized crimes.
