[ 2015-01-27 ]

FBI offers $5k for arrest of Ghanaian over $2m fraud
The FBI has offered a $5,000 reward for
information leading to the arrest of Baffour E.
Opoku on federal Medicaid fraud charges.

The warrant was issued on October 22, 2014 for the
arrest of Opoku after he and nine other people
were indicted on the charges in a federal court,
according to an FBI news release.

The indictment charges Opoku and the associates of
Progressive Counselling Services with defrauding
Medicaid of more than $2 million.

Opoku faces 101 counts on a 105-count indictment.
The associates were arrested in late October.

Opoku, a citizen of Ghana, reportedly lives in
Virginia Beach in the United States of America.
Baffour E. Opoku, 48, is the owner and operator of
Progressive Counseling Services, LLC.

They have been identified as Doretha Selby-Diggs,
40, of Portsmouth, Virginia; Lisa Barrett, 49, of
Norfolk; Barbara Bing Banks, 34, of Hampton,
Virginia; Corey Etheridge, 42, of Chesapeake,
Virginia; Jacqueline Harris, 34, of Portsmouth;
Verline Harris, 48, of Virginia Beach; Arlette
Johnson, 58, of Virginia Beach; Alfreda Stallion,
52, of Virginia Beach; and Johnny Stallion, 34, of
Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to a release, the 105-count indictment
says the defendants conspired to obtain
reimbursement payments from the Virginia Medical
Assistance Program by submitting false claims for
health support services in 2011 and 2012.

Opoku also faces charges that he failed to report
nearly $450,000 in taxable income to the IRS over
two tax years and that Opoku, along with Doretha
Selby-Diggs and Corey Etheridge, submitted false
documents to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, part of the Department of Homeland
Security, with respect to a pending immigration
matter. The indictment further alleges that Lisa
Barrett, Barbara Bing, Jacqueline Harris, and
Arlette Johnson testified falsely before a federal
grand jury that was investigating this matter.

Source - Starrfmonline

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