Hushpuppi bags 11 years sentence

The United States Central District Court in California has sentenced Nigerian socialite and internet criminal, Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi to 11 years in jail over fraud and money laundering. He will, however, spend nine years in prison as he has already spent two years in detention.

In June 2020 Hushpuppi was arrested in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, over an extensive fraud scheme that has robbed victims of their money in the U.S, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and other places.

Then he was extracted to the United States where he was charged with fraud and money laundering and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering with multiple people within and outside the US to facilitate the proceedings.

The socialite, however, bagged only 11 years in prison after he appealed to US Judge Otis Wright to temper justice with mercy and a lighter jail term after scoring high in cleaning activities while in prison.

Note that Hushpuppi’s Instagram page, which has 2.8 million followers, has vanished from the image-sharing platform. It is, however, unclear whether it was officially removed from Instagram or if the page was temporarily disabled by someone with access to it.

(New Telegraph)