Hushpuppi To Spend 11-Years In US Prison | READ DETAILS
Nigeria born internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi has been sentenced to 11-years and three months imprisonment for laundering proceeds of a school financing scam, business email compromise and other fraudulent cyber schemes.
He was sentenced on Monday, November 7, 2022 by the United States District Court sitting at the Central District of California.
The United States Department of Justice, in a statement on Tuesday, said the Instagram celebrity was also ordered by a federal judge to pay $1.7m in restitution to two fraud victims.
The judgment, which was delivered by Justice Otis Wright II, put an end to Hushpuppi’s trial that started after his arrest in June 2020 in his Dubai, United Arab Emirates hotel apartment.
