A Nigerian man accused of marrying three Jamaican women
over a six month period has been charged with bigamy.
Shadrach Momah was arrested last week during an operation carried out by fraud squad detectives and officers from the Immigration Department.
But it is now emerging that Mr. Momah has been all over the world marrying women of various nationalities.
Last week Jamaican police raided Mr. Momah's office on Ripon Road in St. Andrew as part of an investigation into a passport racket.
They seized documents showing that he had married three Jamaican women between July and December last year.
The cops say he took one of the women to Nigeria where they got married.
Mr. Momah, who has a long list of criminal cases pending before the court, appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court Wednesday on fraud charges.
But an internet search by the RJR News Centre reveals that Mr. Momah, a former US insurance agent is accused of preying on women throughout the Northwest United States for nearly a decade.
He was deported to his native Nigeria in 1999 after he was arrested by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service after allegedly abusing and swindling at least 16 women, but mostly evading punishment.
The US police said then that Mr. Momah posed as a doctor or other professional to swindle the women, fathering five children he refused to support.
In some cases he allegedly assaulted the women.
Victims said many law enforcement authorities brushed them off when they lodged complaints, telling them their cases were difficult to prove.
It is not clear when or how he entered Jamaica.
Following his court appearance Wednesday Mr. Momah was remanded until Friday to answer the bigamy charges in Jamaica.
Shadrach Momah was arrested last week during an operation carried out by fraud squad detectives and officers from the Immigration Department.
But it is now emerging that Mr. Momah has been all over the world marrying women of various nationalities.
Last week Jamaican police raided Mr. Momah's office on Ripon Road in St. Andrew as part of an investigation into a passport racket.
They seized documents showing that he had married three Jamaican women between July and December last year.
The cops say he took one of the women to Nigeria where they got married.
Mr. Momah, who has a long list of criminal cases pending before the court, appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court Wednesday on fraud charges.
But an internet search by the RJR News Centre reveals that Mr. Momah, a former US insurance agent is accused of preying on women throughout the Northwest United States for nearly a decade.
He was deported to his native Nigeria in 1999 after he was arrested by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service after allegedly abusing and swindling at least 16 women, but mostly evading punishment.
The US police said then that Mr. Momah posed as a doctor or other professional to swindle the women, fathering five children he refused to support.
In some cases he allegedly assaulted the women.
Victims said many law enforcement authorities brushed them off when they lodged complaints, telling them their cases were difficult to prove.
It is not clear when or how he entered Jamaica.
Following his court appearance Wednesday Mr. Momah was remanded until Friday to answer the bigamy charges in Jamaica.
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