Chinmark CEO, Ijiomah Marksman Declared Wanted By Police Over Alleged N480m Fraud

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chinmark Group, Ijiomah Marksman Chinedu has been declared wanted by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) for alleged investment fraud.

The Chinmark CEO, who is wanted over alleged N480 million investment fraud, was asked to appear before the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Interpol, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

According to a special police gazette bulletin issued on Wednesday, the force announced that a warrant of arrest was issued by the Magistrate Court of Lagos.

Ijiomah Marksman Chinedu is wanted for cyber fraud and obtaining money by false pretenses and money laundering to the tune of N480,013 million.

The declaration also follows a petition by Chive GPS, a dispute resolution company that provides debt recovery solutions and other strategic services in Nigeria on behalf of a client who had sent the money in question into multiple bank accounts controlled by Chinmark Group.

Part of the petition reads: ”We are retained by and others “Our Clients” and on whose express instruction we write to lay a criminal complaint of a well-orchestrated theft, fraud, and obtaining money by false pretences against the trio of Ijiomah Marksman, Marksman Uhunoma Trinity, and Chinmark Group herein referred to as “MARKSMAN.”

“Sometime in 2020 and 2021, MARKSMAN invaded the social media space and other mediums advertising for investment and posed as investment moguls that can manage the public’s funds for investments in real estate, hospitality, trading, and financial loans, in exchange for fixed return at a predetermined rate and duration.”

The police statement further disclosed that at different points, Chinmark’s clients transferred over N480m to different bank accounts owned by Marksman with the expectation of fixed interest.

“Oblivious of the large-scale fraud ahead, our clients transferred, at various times the sum of Four Hundred and Eighty Million Thirteen Thousand Naira (N480,013,000) into the following multiple bank accounts controlled by Marksman.

“The proposed transaction was packaged and designed to yield fixed interests. However, upon expiration of the investment, the chief masterminds, Ijiomah Marksman and Purity Marksman, are rumoured to have fled the country to the UAE or the South Pacific Island of Vanuatu and severed stopped any form of communications with our clients.

”Marksman may have coordinated this fraud alongside a well-financed cyber-actor namely; Amanda Chisom, Peter Awuzie, Happiness Awuzie, Linda Chinemelum Paul, Ada Ujaligwa, Timothy Benedict, and Harrison Gwamnishu who promoted the following as CHINMARK GROUP’s assets all over the country,” the statement explained.

To prevent Markman from fleeing the country to South Africa, the petition sought to place him on a global red notice to allow security agencies monitor his movement.

KanyiDaily had also reported how the police arrested a popular media personality, Amanda Chisom, over her alleged participation in the Ponzi scheme carried out by Marksman Chinedu Ijeoma, also known as Chinmark.