Hajia 4 Reall is accused of defrauding a victim out of $89 thousand by using a forged marriage certificate.
Mona Montrage, a Ghanaian socialite who is also known by her stage name Hajia 4 Reall, is now being prosecuted in the United States (US) on accusations related to an alleged fraud scheme.
The social media influencer, who is 30 years old and was detained in the United Kingdom last November, has now been extradited to the United States to face charges there.
According to a statement released by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, it is alleged that she conned one of her victims by pretending to get married to them.
She is accused of sending the victim a tribal marriage certificate, claiming that it shows that they were married in Ghana, and then taking $89,000 from the victim in exchange for the document.
According to the statement that can be seen on the website of the United States Attorney’s Office, “MONTRAGE received money from several victims of romance frauds who members of the Enterprise tricked into sending money.”
“Among the false pretenses that were used to induce victims to send money to MONTRAGE were: (i) payments to transport gold to the United States from overseas; (ii) payments to resolve a fake FBI unemployment investigation; and (iii) payments to assist a fake United States army officer in receiving funds from Afghanistan.”
In reference to one of the victims, the statement said, “MONTRAGE used her real name when speaking to the victim multiple times over the phone.” The victim received from MONTRAGE, in the form of a tribal marriage certificate, a document that falsely claimed to prove that MONTRAGE and the victim had been married in Ghana.
“The victim sent MONTRAGE approximately 82 wire transfers totaling approximately $89,000 to ostensibly help with costs associated with MONTRAGE’s father’s farm in Ghana.” MONTRAGE was the beneficiary of these wire payments.Overall, MONTRAGE was in charge of bank accounts that were responsible for the theft of more than $2 million in illegal cash from the Enterprise.
Although Hajia 4 Reall is assumed innocent until proven guilty, she faces a minimum sentence of ten years in jail if she is convicted of the charges against her.
