Chef Abdul-Razak Failatu, popularly known as Chef Faila, is a Ghanaian chef who has expressed her deep respect for socialite Mona Faiz Montrage, also referred to as Hajia4Reall.
Chef Faila said on Saturday’s episode of “United Showbiz” on UTV that she has always been moved by Hajia4Real’s humanitarian efforts in underprivileged Northern villages.
“In the Northern Region, life was very difficult”, Chef Faila stated, “So we were happy when she rose to prominence in the country. I think in the last two days years, she came around to the North to donate to the orphanage and encouraged people, so I was very inspired.”
She made it clear, though, that she was just in admiration of Hajia4Real’s humanitarian efforts and not her way of life.
“Even though I was selling rice by then, I was praying that I would be like Hajia4Real”, not in the sense of her lifestyle, but the wealth she had to make an impact”, she said.
Hajia4Real’s parents, according to Chef Faila, cannot be held accountable for the transgressions of an adult who makes her own decisions.
“I know it’s not easy for their parents at this moment. I believe after 30 years, everyone has the right to choose for themselves and no one can blame their parents for their child’s wrongdoing,” she said.
Hajia4Reall admitted last month to obtaining fraud proceeds from romance scams and made a forfeiture and restitution payment of $2,164,758.41.
She also consented to make restitution in the same amount and pay forfeiture of $2,164,758.41.
At an unspecified later time, Hajia4Reall will be punished by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty; it is unclear if she will receive the maximum five-year sentence.
Regarding the guilty plea, attorney Damian Williams stated: “Mona Faiz Montrage was arrested abroad and now faces serious consequences for her actions. She knowingly received money stolen from older Americans through romance scams.”
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“Romance scams such as Montrage’s harmed her vulnerable, elderly victims not only in the cruel betrayal of trust in the realization that their online romantic connection was fiction, but by also callously stealing their money.
“This Office and our law enforcement partners are relentless in bringing fraudsters who target Americans to justice, no matter where they are,” he stressed.
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