A Fort Liberty soldier has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to three counts of money laundering related to “an elaborate series of romance scams,” according to federal authorities.
Specialist Sanda G. Frimpong, who was serving on active duty until his arrest in 2023, was ordered to pay back over $350,000 to victims he and others manipulated. Frimpong posed as a romantic suitor to earn his victims' trust and subsequently bilked them out of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a press release Thursday.
“Frimpong and other conspirators engaged in elaborate scams, impersonating romantic love interests, diplomats, customs personnel, military personnel, and other fictitious personas,” the press release read.
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Frimpong pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering on Sept. 14.
Frimpong served as an Army specialist, according to the indictment. He immigrated to the U.S. from the Republic of Ghana in 2015 using a K-1 fiancé visa, divorced the sponsor in 2018 and was naturalized as a citizen shortly thereafter.
He laundered the money from his victims often with the help of contacts in Ghana, according to the press release.
In one example included in the indictment, Frimpong posed as a woman in 2020 to target a New York-based…
