Seth Nyamekye, 40, of Canal Winchester, was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering proceeds of online romance scams.
A Canal Winchester man found guilty in a May jury trial of 35 counts of money laundering the proceeds of online romance scams was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Columbus to five years in prison., also was ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution to the victims of the romance scams.
Last month, another defendant, Edward Amankwah, 45, of Westerville, admitted to conspiring to launder nearly $4.3 million through bank accounts in his control as part of a romance scam.Westerville man pleads guilty to role in laundering nearly $4.3M in online romance scams Nyamekye was not charged with defrauding the victims himself, but instead was charged with laundering the proceeds of the romance fraud.
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