Detained internet fraudster, Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi, may spend more years in jail as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly filed another charge against him recently, claiming that he perpetrated another $400,000+ internet scam between January to March 2022 while using internet inside a prison facility in the US.
ABN TV reports that upon his arrival in the United States on July 3, 2020, after his arrest in Dubai where he lives, he was accused of conspiring to launder ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’. New evidence was submitted to the United States District Court of California on March 16th, 2022, in a document stating that Hushpuppi allegedly engaged in the acquisition and washing of Economic Impact Payment debit cards obtained unlawfully from stolen data of US individuals and residents.
Abbas is also accused of committing fraud in Nigeria as he is also wanted by Nigeria’s financial crime police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
On 28th July 2021, Hushpuppi pleaded guilty to money laundering and also exposed a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in Nigeria, Abba Kyari, as an accomplice in his $1.1 million scam deal.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1982, Hushpuppi had a reputation as a ‘Yahoo boy’, a local name for a cybercriminal.
