Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has been convicted of his fraud crimes and sentenced to 11years in a United States prison on Monday.
This is coming after over four postponements. US District Judge Otis D.Wright ordered the defendant to pay $1,732,841 in compensation to two fraud victims.
The Judge said, “Money laundering and business email compromise scams are a massive international crime problem. And we will continue to work with our law enforcement and international partners to identify and prosecute those involved, wherever they may be.”
He added that Hushpuppi had planned to use online schemes to launder tens of millions of dollars while boasting about his crime funded lifestyle.
In 2020, Hushpuppi was arrested for an alleged $35 million fraud and on many counts of cybercrime. Ten months after his arrest in Dubai, Hushpuppi entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to attempted money laundering.
In April 2021, He also entered a guilty plea to accusations of multi-million dollar fraud brought by the US government. This is according to the court records as provided by US Department of Justice.
Earlier this year in October , Hushpuppi’s verified Instagram account was deactivated by Meta.