Executive Director for Northern Youth for Peace and Development arrested for Visa fraud

The Executive Director for Northern Youth for Peace and Development (NYUPED), Prince Hardi Adam is currently in the grips of the Ghana Police Service for allegedly swindling a number of persons under the guise of securing them traveling visas to the United States of America (USA).

Police confirmed his arrest to MyNewsGh.com on Wednesday April 24, 2019 but disclosed that several dockets of him in relation to the same modus operandi involving the suspect from different stations were being put together to arraign him before court to be provisionally charged with defrauding by false pretenses.

It is gathered that in December last year, the suspect was declared wanted by the police after he engaged in a similar act but went into hiding thereafter until he was apprehended last Monday.

According to the facts of the case, Prince Hardi Adams in one of the about six cases pending before police investigators, presented himself as a visa contractor to his victims and took various sums of money including $6,000 and an unregistered Nisssan Altima salon car valued GH¢75,000.

He was reported to have gone into hiding thereafter until he was arrested, arraigned before court and granted bail but jumped bail for the police to rely on the sureties who after months of scouting produced him last Monday.

Upon his latest arrest, police disclosed that cases of similar nature were lodged with them at different jurisdictions citing an instance where he received $4,000 but failed to fulfill his part of the bargain.

Police were unable to tell MyNewsGh.com the exact number of victims he has defrauded under the pretext of securing them visas but promised to arraign him before court on Friday April 26, 2019 after building a comprehensive docket on the case.