Alleged Nigerian Fraudster, Hushpuppi who was recently arrested in Dubai will be facing 20 years in Jail after he conspired to launder millions of dollars from business email compromise (BEC) frauds and other scams.
Hushpuppi born Raymond Igbalode Abbas, arrived in Chicago last thursday from Dubai. Abbas was arrested last month by UAE law enforcement officials.
He first appeared in a federal US court in Chicago and expected to be transferred to Los Angeles in the coming weeks.
FBI special agents earlier this week obtained custody of Abbas and took him to the United States to face a charge of conspiring to engage in money laundering that is alleged in a criminal complaint filed on June 25 by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles.
According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Abbas maintains social media accounts that frequently showed him in designer clothes, wearing expensive watches, and posing in or with luxury cars and charter jets.
“The FBI’s investigation has revealed that Abbas finances this opulent lifestyle through crime, and that he is one of the leaders of a transnational network that facilitates computer intrusions, fraudulent schemes (including BEC schemes), and money laundering, targeting victims around the world in schemes designed to steal hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to the affidavit.
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