hushpuppi

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, commonly known as Hushpuppi, Hush or Ray Hushpuppi (born October 11, 1982) is a Nigerian Instagram celebrity who is facing criminal charges in the United States of conspiracy to launder money obtained from business email compromise frauds and other scams, including schemes that defrauded a U.S. law firm of about $40M, illegally transferred $14.7M from a foreign financial institution and targeted to steal $124M from an English football club until his arrest by the Dubai Police in June 2020 and his extradition to the United States, Abbas had a global following of over 2.5 million followers on Instagram where he posted pictures and videos of his lavish spending on exotic cars, watches, designer clothes, bags from luxury brands like Gucci, Fendi and Louis Vuitton and of himself boarding helicopters, with celebrity, footballers and Nigerian politicians or while on charter jets. He claimed to be a real estate developer. He holds a passport from St Kitts and Nevis.
On the night his apartment at the Palazzo Versace was raided in an operation code-named Fox Hunt 2, Abbas was arrested alongside eleven others in six simultaneous raids, detectives seized more than 150 million dirham (about $40 million) in cash, 13 luxury cars worth Dh 25 million ($7M), 21 laptops, 47 smartphones, 15 memory storage devices, 5 external hard drives and 800,000 emails of potential victims alongside suitcases full of cash. The arrest was part of an FBI investigation that indicted him of being a 'key player' in a transnational cybercrime network that provided "safe havens for stolen money around the world."Mr Abbas' lawyer Gal Pissetzky told the BBC that his client, was not a criminal and had made his money legitimately from being paid by designer brands for promotion and from real estate. Mr Pissetzky also told the BBC that the United States had no authority to transport his client from Dubai. "In my opinion, the FBI and the government here acted illegally when they kidnapped him from Dubai without any legal process to do so," Mr Pissetzky told the BBC. "There was no extradition, there were no legal steps taken, there were no court documents filed, it was simply a call to the FBI. He is not a citizen of the United States, the US had absolutely no authority to take him." But the Dubai police said in a Facebook post that the FBI director had thanked them for extraditing the two men. "You'll have to ask them about why they called it an extradition," a Department of Justice spokesman responded in an email to the BBC.

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