Anderson Ofosuhene Anim
The trial of Anderson Ofosuhene Anim, aka Mario G, the administrator of Empressleak Ghana, a pornographic website, has once again been adjourned by an Accra circuit court.
The adjournment was a result of the absence of the trial judge, Susana Eduful, who had taken her leave.
The accused person was arrested for leaking the sex tapes of many victims and demanding huge sums of monies from them in order to take the videos down from the website.
He is facing four charges including publication of obscene material, child pornography, extortion and money laundering.
Mario G has been accused of using the porn website to publish nude pictures and videos of people and extorting money from them.
He was arrested on July 30, 2020 in a joint operation by the Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Ministry of Communications.
He is said to have operated the website for the past six years from his home in Osino in the Eastern Region.
The suspect was arrested while he was in the act of uploading nude pictures and videos of some victims onto the website.
His arrest followed six months surveillance by the security agencies.
Modus Operandi
Victims are made to pay between GH¢500 and GH¢2000 through a mobile money account before their pictures are taken down from the website.
Despite the huge sums of money the victims are made to pay, the victims continue to receive threatening calls from others believed to be accomplices of the accused who have downloaded the videos and in turn make demands for monies in order to get rid of the videos.
The accomplices allegedly built acquaintances with the victims through social media platforms including dating sites using fake identities.
They then coerced the victims to share nude pictures or videos of their sexual acts which were secretly copied.
The police are making efforts to arrest the accomplices of Mario G.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak