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Judge Orders Release of Hajia4Reall’s Passport for Deportation

The legal team of imprisoned Ghanaian celebrity Mona Faiz Montrage, popularly known as Hajia4Reall, Fast Law, has requested that US District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken release her passport.

When Hajia4Reall completes her term at the FDC Philadelphia prison, this instruction will help her self-deport to Ghana.

Mona Faiz Montrage’s attorneys formally demanded her passport on November 1, 2024, as part of a previous ruling. The attorneys informed the judge in a letter that was obtained by the media, “We respectfully seek the return of Ms. Montrage’s passport to initiate her self-deportation proceedings to Ghana.” The government did not oppose to this request, according to our conversation with AUSA Kevin Mead.

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Judge Oetken has since approved the request, ordering the release of Mona Faiz Montrage’s passport to her lawyers.

Mona Faiz Montrage was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison on June 28, 2024, by Judge J. Paul Oetken after pleading guilty to conspiracy to receive stolen money on February 21, 2024.

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In addition to the prison term, Montrage was sentenced to three years of supervised release, ordered to forfeit $216,475, and pay restitution of $1,387,458.

Earlier, lawyers for the incarcerated Ghanaian “influencer” and socialite had formally requested the return of her passport from the US government. In their document addressed to Judge Oetken, they stated, “We represent Ms. Mona Montrage on the above-captioned matter. We write with the consent of the government to respectfully request the release of Ms. Montrage’s passport which was surrendered to Pretrial Services at the time of her arrest.”

This request is consistent with a previous judgment requiring the passport to be returned upon completion of her sentence. Ms. Montrage will be escorted by US Marshals Service (USMS) from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility to the airport upon the completion of her incarceration and will be flown directly to Ghana without any domestic stops.

Mona Montrage self-surrendered on July 29, 2024, and is currently serving a year and a day at FDC Philadelphia. She had been charged in a six-count indictment related to her role in a series of romance schemes and for laundering the proceeds of those schemes.

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