![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/worlds-biggest-money-launderer-who-boasted-of-luxury-jetset-life-is-jailed/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20360962-1667915074667.jpg&description=AN Instagram fraudster who flaunted his lavish lifestyle on social media after leading global scams worth millions has been jailed. Ramon Abbas, who called himself Ray Hushpuppi, laundered millions of stolen dollars amid a series of cyberheists that saw him pocket millions and pose with supercars. Abbas has been jailed for 11 yearsCredit: instagram He conned victims all over the worldCredit: instagram Abbas was arrested in a raid in Dubai in June last year following an FBI probeCredit: @DubaiPoliceHQ The 40-year-old Nigerian influencer used an extravagant social media persona boasting 2.5million followers to con victims all over the world. He has now been sentenced in Los Angeles to more than 11 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution to two fraud victims, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Don Alway, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said: "Abbas was one of the most prolific money launderers in the world." Prosecutors said Abbas and a Canadian man laundered money from various online crimes including bank cyberheists and business email compromise, or BEC, a prolific crime in which crooks hack into email accounts, pretend to be someone they're not and fool victims into wiring money where it doesn't belong. In 2019, he helped launder some $14.7 million stolen by North Korean hackers from a bank in Malta, funneling the money through banks in Romania and Bulgaria, prosecutors said. He also helped launder millions of pounds stolen from a British company and a Premier League club, got a New York-based law firm to transfer nearly $923,000 to a criminal account and acknowledged in a plea agreement that he helped defraud someone in Qatar who sought a $15 million loan to build a school, federal prosecutors said. At Monday's sentencing, Abbas was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $922,857 in restitution to the law firm and $809,983 in restitution to the victim in Qatar. By his own admis){kind=link}
AN Instagram fraudster who flaunted his lavish lifestyle on social media after leading global scams worth millions has been jailed.
Ramon Abbas, who called himself Ray Hushpuppi, laundered millions of stolen dollars amid a series of cyberheists that saw him pocket millions and pose with supercars.
The 40-year-old Nigerian influencer used an extravagant social media persona boasting 2.5million followers to con victims all over the world.
He has now been sentenced in Los Angeles to more than 11 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution to two fraud victims, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Don Alway, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said: “Abbas was one of the most prolific money launderers in the world.”