It seems its just a matter of time that Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass popularly known as Hushpuppi, begins his potential 20 years leave from his lavish lifestyle.
According to a report by BBC Pidgin monitored by African Entertainment, Hushpuppi has agreed to plea guilty to the moneylaundering charge leveled against him, meaning he risks spending the next 20 years in jail and far away from his expensive Gucci wears and luxurious cars.
BBC pidgin claimed to have chanced upon court documents in which he reached an agreement to plea guilty.
According to the report, he was willing to appear before the court to plea guilty to conspiracy to engage in moneylaundering.
What do we know about Hushpuppi trial?
Huspuppi is standing trial in Los Angeles, California and reports say he risk 20 years in jail.
Hushpuppi has been accused of being the leader of a group that facilitates computer intrusion, business email compromise (BEC) fraud and money laundering.
He initially pleaded not guilty to the four-count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering conspiracies, international money laundering and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity.
However, the US Department of Justice insisted that he led an opulent lifestyle on social media funded by a cybercrime syndicate involved in email compromise or BEC scheme, hacking corporate emails and tricking staff into making money transfers.
“Abbas maintains social media accounts that frequently showed him in designer clothes, wearing expensive watches and posing in or with luxury cars and charter jets. The FBI’s investigation has revealed that Abbas finances this opulent lifestyle through crime,” according to the court document.
“Abbas and others further conspired to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from other fraudulent schemes and computer intrusions, including one scheme to steal £100m (approximately $124m) from an English Premier League soccer club,” the Department of Justice indicated months ago.
