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Several suspects were arrested during the raid and evidence, including a laptop computer, smartphones, 150 passports from 10 countries, legitimate and counterfeit visas from the United States, the Schengen zone, India and South Africa, as well as counterfeit ID documents were secured. No names of the suspects or those who were detained were released. It has been alleged that a Ghanaian immigration lawyer working with corrupt law enforcement officers from Ghana were part of the scam.
Ghana has a notorious reputation for scams but running a fake U.S. embassy for years, undetected?
The bust prompts several questions. For one, how could government and law enforcement in Ghana fail to notice a fake U.S. Embassy that was flying a U.S. flag, three days a week, for years? How could U.S. intelligence services, especially the CIA that has a tangible presence in Ghana fail to notice the “scam” for years? Does the fact that the “fake” embassy that was run with the involvement of Turkish citizens suddenly was “busted” reflect a deterioration in relations between Turkey and the USA?
These questions are especially relevant because members of Turkey’s intelligence service MIT and Turkish Airlines were previously implicated in smuggling weapons to insurgents in Nigeria.
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Ghana busts decade-old fake U.S. embassy
U.S> passports (Credit: J Aaron Farr/flickr)
Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade issued illegally obtained authentic visas, the U.S. State Department said. Until it was shut down this summer, the sham embassy was housed in a run-down, pink two-story building with a corrugated iron roof and flew a U.S. flag outside. Inside hung a portrait of President Barack Obama. “It was not operated by the United States government, but by figures from both Ghanaian and Turkish organized crime rings and a Ghanaian attorney practicing immigration and criminal law,” the State Department said in a statement released late on Friday. Turkish citizens, who spoke English and Dutch, posed as consular officers and staffed the operation. Investigations also uncovered a fake Dutch embassy, the State Department said. The crime ring issued fraudulently obtained but legitimate U.S. visas and false identification documents, including birth certificates at a cost of $6,000 each, the statement said. (Reuters http://buff.ly/2gTXw3R)
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