BREAKING: Hushpuppi Finally Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering, Risks 20 Years Imprisonment
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Popular Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, aka, Hushpuppi, has agreed to plead guilty to the money laundering charge against him, IBOM FOCUS reports.
The popular Instagram celebrity who is known for his luxury lifestyle, was arrested in the UAE in June 2020 alongside 11 of his associates over allegations bordering on hacking, impersonation, scamming, banking fraud, and identity theft.
Hushpuppi Finally Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering
The social media figure’s extradition to the US had followed after the UAE police detailed his arrest in a special operation dubbed ‘Fox Hunt 2’ where he was accused of defrauding 1.9 million victims to the tune of N168 billion.
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He was arraigned and detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago ahead of his trial.
Hushpuppi Finally Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering
A partly redacted plea agreement document in the cyber fraud case against him surfaced online on Wednesday.
In the court file signed by Loius Shapiro, Hushpuppi’s lawyer, on behalf of the defendant, Hushpuppi agreed to give up the right to indictment by a grand jury and plead guilty to count two of the trial “Case No. 2:20-CR-00322-ODW.”
The referenced court case, it is understood, charges Hushpuppi with “conspiracy to engage in money laundering.”
For a person to be deemed guilty of the crime, the document read, “there was an agreement between two or more persons to conduct a financial transaction involving property that represented the proceeds of wire fraud.”
It also added that the defendant must have known that the funds were “proceeds of some form of unlawful activity” and the transaction was designed “to conceal the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of the proceeds.”
Hushpuppi risks a statutory maximum of 20 years imprisonment on agreeing to violate the USC, Section 1956 (h).
“The defendant understands that the statutory maximum sentence that the Court can impose for a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h), as charged in the Information, is: 20 years imprisonment,” the file read.
“Defendant understands that defendant will be required to pay full restitution to the victim(s) of the offense to which defendant is pleading guilty.
“Defendant agrees that the court may order restitution to persons other than the victim(s) of the offenses to which defendant is pleading guilty and in amounts greater than those alleged in the count.”
Hushpuppi Finally Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering
