Authorities in Ghana have busted another QNet human trafficking ring, leading to three hundred and twenty arrests.

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), clarified that two hundred and ninety-five of those arrested are QNet human trafficking victims.

From a November 6th EOCO press-release;

EOCO is pleased to announce a major breakthrough in its efforts to combat human trafficking and economic crime in Ghana.

Today, the Anti-Human Traffic Unit of EOCO carried out two simultaneous operations into two locations, resulting in the arrest of 320 individuals.

Initial assessments indicate that 25 of the 320 individuals are potential suspects, while the remaining 295 are deemed to be victims of human trafficking and employment scams perpetrated under the guise of QNet.

QNet is an MLM pyramid scheme run out of Malaysia by founder Vijay Eswaran (right).

Recruitment into the scam through human trafficking has been a problem in Ghana for years. QNet was ordered to cease business operations in Ghana in 2022.

Beginning last month, with the arrest of another twenty-six human trafficking scammers, Ghanian authorities have begun citing cooperation with QNet.

Instead of addressing QNet as a pyramid scheme defrauding Ghanaians, we seem to now have a perverse situation where pyramid fraud is accepted – so long as QNet continues to cooperate with routine human trafficking busts.

The reason QNet victims are being trafficked is to recruit them into the scam, and then put them to work recruiting others. This is QNet’s fraudulent business model, and has been since QNet launched as QuestNet in 1998.

For their part, QNet could instantly put a stop to human trafficking of victims by blocking accounts of suspect promoters. Why an MLM company with a fraudulent business model doesn’t proactively stop fraud should be obvious.

And so we have routine arrests of human trafficker QNet promoters in Ghana, now with the added farce of EOCO cooperating with QNet.

In addition to the three hundred and twenty arrests this month and twenty-six arrests last month;

Regulatory action against QNet, including arrests, has taken place in India, Cote d’Ivoire, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Liberia, Russia, Togo and Sri Lanka. Dating back to QuestNet, there are over a dozen more QNet fraud warnings from other countries.

Again, QNet was banned in Ghana in 2022 but the court order behind the ban appears to be being ignored.

Unfortunately despite QNet defrauding consumers for decades and multiple regulatory fraud warnings issued globally, Malaysian authorities have failed to take action.

To the detriment of consumers in Africa, the cat and mouse game between QNet, the scam’s promoters and Ghanaian authorities continues.