Chinmark CEO, Ijiomah Chinedu, Declared Wanted Over N480 million Investment Fraud

The Chief Executive Officer of Chinmark Group, Ijiomah Marksman Chinedu, has been declared wanted by the Nigerian Police amid alleged involvement in N480 million investment fraud.

Chinedu was said to have promoted some investment opportunities with the promise of fixed interest for investors interested in growing their wealth.

His investment opportunities attracted about 4500  investors and a substantial investor who allegedly transferred N480,013,000 into several bank accounts belonging to Marksman.

Chinedu was declared wanted in a Police gazette bulletin after a debt recovery firm, Chive GPS, petitioned the police on behalf of the unnamed investor and a Magistrate Court in Lagos approved an arrest warrant.

The CEO of Chinmark promoted investment opportunities in real estate, hospitality, trading, and financial loans in 2020 and 2021 on social media, portraying himself as a business mogul, Chive GPS stated in the petition. 

Chinedu reportedly worked with several individuals to allegedly coordinate the fraud, duping the unsuspecting investor of N480.01 million. 

”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,” the petition reads. 

The firm also stated that: “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.” 

“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,” Chivas GPS added.