iPhones, cars and houses used to lure scam recruits
Young Namibians recruited into an alleged N$8-billion international romance scam syndicate were promised iPhones, cars and houses to lure victims into fake cryptocurrency investments. Court documents seen by The Namibian reveal that employees of Raylon Investment CC were promised lucrative rewards on top of their N$3 000 monthly salary and N$1 000 performance bonus if […] The post iPhones, cars and houses used to lure scam recruits appeared first on The Namibian .
Young Namibians recruited into an alleged N$8-billion international romance scam syndicate were promised iPhones, cars and houses to lure victims into fake cryptocurrency investments.
Court documents seen by The Namibian reveal that employees of Raylon Investment CC were promised lucrative rewards on top of their N$3 000 monthly salary and N$1 000 performance bonus if they persuaded foreign victims to invest more money.
According to an application for a forfeiture of property order under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, filed by prosecutor general Martha Imalwa in the High Court in January 2025, one of the Namibians recruited into the syndicate, Robert Linus, says he joined the company in April 2023 after responding to a job advertisement.
Linus is one of the witnesses in a case involving Chinese nationals and Namibians who were arrested and charged in 2023 with 65 serious offences, including human trafficking, racketeering, money laundering and fraud.
The accused in the matter are Chinese nationals Fan Jia, Guo Linjie, Zheng Haifeng, Shi Zi Jun, Lin Shu Lin, Chen Wuyu, Neng Jun Wu, Wu Weiyang and Chen You Yi, Cuban citizen Carlos Alejandro Batista Valdes, Singapore citizen Ghim Hwee Chris Ang, Namibian citizens Tango Muulyau, Mclanda Mamelodi Domingo and Toivo Herman, all of whom were arrested and granted bail.
A Namibian close corporation, Raylon Investment, is also charged in the matter which is pending in the Windhoek High Court.
Several of the foreign nationals were granted bail between February and September 2024 after paying amounts ranging from N$30 000 to N$100 000.
However, when the matter was scheduled for pretrial proceedings in the Windhoek High Court in April this year, eight of the accused failed to appear.
