8 arrested over alleged internet fraud initiation assault in Bono Region

The Ghana Police Service has arrested eight suspects for allegedly assaulting a 21-year-old man during an initiation into an internet fraud operation at Kotokrom in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono Region.

In a statement dated Friday, October 9, the Bono Regional Police Command said the arrests followed a distress call received by its Regional Operations Unit on October 4, reporting that a group of people were attacking a man at Kotokrom.

According to the police, the suspects admitted during investigations to beating Mr Umukoro as part of his initiation into the alleged internet fraud operation, claiming they had undergone a similar process themselves.