Even though the extradition processes for Frederick Kumi otherwise called Abu Trica to America is still ongoing, the Accra High Court has granted him a GH 30,000,000 bail. He will have to produce two sureties to be justified. The United States had indicted him and accusing him of partaking in a romance scam ring that defrauded many American elderly folks of over $8 million.
Mr. Kumi was subsequently arrested in December 2025 at the McCarthy Hill neighborhood of Accra. It has previously not succeeded in the bail processes application of the defence. Gbese District Court, presided over by Anna Akosua Appiah Gottfried Anaafi Gyasi, threw out a preliminary objection by Kumi to bar the US from extraditing him on the basis that the said extradition treaties between Ghana and USA did not cover cyber fraud (the reason U.S. authorities want Kumi sent to America) earlier this year.
The judge, however ruled on the matter by stating that the said crime for which Mr Kumi was wanted falls within the parameters of the1931 treaty between Ghana and the United States that covers wire fraud. Meanwhile, Kumi is also fighting the circumstances that led to his arrest, detention, and subsequent interrogation of December 2025 in a separate suit against the Minister for the Interior and a host of investigative bodies.
The suit, however, named the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Attorney General, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), the Narcotics Control Commission (NCC), amongst others as defendants. In his writ, which he filed at the High Court Human Rights Division for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights under article 33 of the Constitution, 1992, the man also seeks GH10 million damages for the alleged violation of his rights.
He is particularly aggrieved about a public statement issued by the Economic and Organized Crime Office describing him as a “notorious cyber-criminal and making public allegations he was engaged in large-scale fraud and criminal enterprise without even having been found guilty in a court of law”.
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