Questions linger about high-profile ‘marriage fraud’ case

It was the most highly publicized case of “marriage fraud” in recent memory: A Canadian woman abandoned by her Guinean husband only a month after he arrived in this country, the revelation that he had previously fathered a child in Africa, and his subsequent deportation for not declaring the existence of a dependent. But paternity tests may now show the so-called fraudster was in fact not the child’s father — and that the man portrayed as a cad may have been exiled from his new life without good reason. Eight days before Fode Mohamed (Akra) Soumah left for his homeland in February, paternity test results were given to both the Canadian Border Services Agency and Citizenship and Immigration Canada officials. And Soumah’s second Canadian wife, Cassandre Blier, questions why no stay of deportation was granted so this new evidence could be reviewed.