A Nigerian Instagram “influencer” known as “Hushpuppi” pled guilty and admitted his involvement in a conspiracy to defraud a Qatari businessman of more than a million dollars in the United States.
According to CNN, 37-year-old born Ramon Abbas also admitted to laundering money “through bank accounts around the world,” including “several other cyber and business email compromise schemes that cumulatively caused more than $24 million in losses,” the statement read.
Abbas pled guilty to the charges in April, according to information in recently unsealed court documents.
Abbas was arrested in June 2020 in the United Arab Emirates after local police raided his Dubai apartment.
Dubai police found nearly $41 million in cash, 13 luxury cars valued at around $6.8 million, and phone and computer evidence containing more than 100,000 fraud files and the addresses of nearly two million possible victims during their raid of his residence.
