RAMON ABBAS, Nigeria's prolific fraudster, better known by his Instagram monniker, HUSHPUPPI, was sentenced this week to more than eleven years in Federal Prison by a District Judge in Los Angeles, after pleading guilty to a single money laundering conspiracy charge. Abbas, who worked with convicted Canadian money launderer, GHALEB ALAUMARY. who himself received 140 months, was involved in a wide variety of international scams that brought him to the attention of the world's law enforcement agencies.
His most notorious operation involved the theft and laundering of $14.7m from Malta's Bank of Valletta, in cooperation with hackers from North Korea, a scheme which for a time actually destabilized the Maltese financial structure. Abbas, who was extradited from the United Arab Emirates, engaged in a gaudy and excessive display of his illegally-gained wealth ( Rolls-Royce & Bentley), by bragging in a very conspicuous manner online, whilst continuing to exploit more victims on a global basis.
The defendant was also ordered to make restitution to two of his victims in an amount slightly less than $2m. Given the magnitude of his crimes, would not a 20-year sentence have been more appropriate for this habitual criminal, as a deterrent to others who contemplate fraud on such a scale? he will, of course, be deported back to his native Nigeria, after serving his sentence, and the likelihood that he returns to a life of crime is great. Perhaps his victims in the European Union might want to bring additional charges against him there, to insure that justice is properly served upon this career criminal.
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