Ghanaian dancehall performer Shatta Wale has come to the defense of his near companion and relate, Isaac Kofi Oduro Boateng, famously known as Kofi Boat, taking after reports of his capture in a joint operation by Interpol and the US Government Bureau of Examination (FBI) over an charged $100 million extortion scheme.
In a live video circulating on social media, Shatta Wale tended to the issue, making it clear that he does not accept Kofi Vessel is a scammer, opposite to the developing hypotheses online.
The performer impacted faultfinders and individuals of the open who, in his see, have been as well fast to name Kofi Vessel as a fraudster fair since of the arrest.
According to Shatta Wale, what is unfurling is essentially a “business bargain gone wrong” and not a reflection of any criminal expectation on the portion of his friend.
He communicated profound concern over how individuals surge to draw conclusions without having the full actualities and cautioned Ghanaians against taking bliss in other people’s misfortunes.
He encourage communicated enthusiastic trouble over the affect the capture has had on Kofi Boat’s family. “My heart breaks anytime I see his mother and kids. They don’t merit this kind of torment. It’s truly sad,” he included with obvious frustration.
Meanwhile report shows that Kofi Vessel and two others were captured on Friday, June 13, 2025, for supposedly running a advanced extortion syndicate including Trade E-mail Compromise (BEC) and sentiment tricks that focused on people and companies between 2016 and 2023. The gather is confronting potential removal to the Joined together States after an prosecution was issued by a Locale Court for the Southern Locale of Unused York.
According to the US International safe haven in Accra, a formal ask for their temporary capture was made to Ghana’s Service of Remote Issues in June 2024, driving to the issuance of an capture warrant marked by Ghana’s Serve of Insides, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, on Walk 18, 2025.
Despite the gravity of the affirmations, Shatta Wale’s defense underscores the vulnerability encompassing the case, particularly as examinations proceed and the suspects anticipate conceivable removal.