BBC News finally confirms Hushpuppi US PRISON Jail Sentence and number of years to spend in prison!

BBC news (bbc.com) has confirmed Hushpuppi US PRISON Jail Sentence and number of years to spend in prison in an article published within the early hours to Tuesday Nov 9, 2022: "Hushpuppi: Notorious Nigerian fraudster jailed for 11 years in US".

The prominent Nigerian Instagram influencer has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in the United States for his role in an international fraud syndicate.
Hushpuppi, real name Ramon Abbas, flaunted his affluent lifestyle on his Facebook profile, which had 2.8 million followers before being deactivated.

In addition, the judge in Los Angeles ordered him to pay $1,732,841 (£1,516,182) in reparations to two victims of fraud. Abbas will serve his 135-month term in a federal prison. He pleaded guilty to money laundering last year. According to court filings in California, Abbas admitted to attempting to steal more than $1.1 million from someone who wished to build a new children's school in Qatar.

Those who knew Abbas as a child told the BBC that his father was a taxi driver and his mother was a market seller, but as he grew older, he developed a penchant for blowing money. "He was very kind. He used to purchase alcohol for everyone in the neighborhood "Seye, a local driver, stated.



According to Seye, he began his fraudulent lifestyle as a "Yahoo boy," a term used in Nigeria to describe guys who perpetrate romance fraud by stealing other people's identities online and defrauding their unwitting partners. In 2019, one of Abbas' fraud schemes, which had by this point become global affairs, had thrown the European island of Malta into chaos as payment systems were shut down after Abbas attempted to launder €13 million ($13 million) stolen by a gang of North Korean hackers from the Maltese Bank of Valletta in 2019.

This article has been paraphrased in parts with reference to BBC's publication. Read the full article on BBC news via https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63542573