A former member of parliament for Tamale Central, has attested to the innocence of his son Abdul Fuseini, who was given a two-year prison sentence by a US court.

The former minister for environment, science, and technology claimed during an appearance on Citi TV's Face to Face that he knows Abdul Inusah too well to think that he is guilty of indulging in fraud.

“I support my son 110%, I know him. I know Abdul Hamid, I know he can be boisterous but I don’t know him to be somebody who will be interested in other people’s things,” he said.

According to him, the circumstance around the issue makes him believe that Abdul was caught up in stupidity by seeking to enter into a business while schooling in the US.

“Well, it is a difficult thing, it is very difficult. I mean you train your child, bring up your child to be a useful and responsible person. You sit down with him at night and in the day to talk about what decent life is, you try to infuse in him what hard work can do but we are of different generations.

“It is difficult to talk about him because deep inside me, deep inside me I think he was just caught by stupidity and nothing or some level of invincibility. As a student he had his document so he decided to register a company. I never sanctioned that, I believe that if you are sent to school to learn you must concentrate on your studies and I told him that. Now that obviously as a young man he thought he could make quick bucks so he registered a company and he was actually buying cars for people. I know many people in Ghana that he bought cars for. In this particular case, he bought a car for some guys from Nigeria who were fellow students, colleague students and it turned out that the money used to buy the car was obtained fraudulently and that was his offense,” he said.

32-year-old Abdul Inusah has been sentenced to a two-year prison term following his conviction in connection with a fraudulent scheme based in Huntington. This scheme involved deceiving individuals across multiple states through the use of deceptive online personas.

According to information obtained by Ghana Web, Abdul Inusah has also been mandated to pay $128,000 in restitution.

The trial, which lasted for three days, was concluded by a federal jury as stated in a press release from the US Attorney's Office Southern District of West Virginia, dated Thursday, March 23, 2023. The release outlined that Abdul Inusah was found guilty for his involvement in a conspiracy that exploited victims through fabricated identities via email, text messaging, online dating websites, and social media platforms.

Despite the conviction, Abdul Inusah's father, Inusah Fuseini, a private legal practitioner, stands firm in his belief in his son's innocence and extends unwavering support. He has revealed that an appeal has already been filed against the sentence.