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Ray Hushpuppi frequently uploaded pictures of himself posing in front of exotic cars, private jets, and designer clothing. Associate FBI Director Don Always provided the following description of the influencer:
“one of the most active money launderers in the world.”
A federal court ordered Ray Hushpuppi, real name Ramon Abbas, to pay $1.7 million back to two people he defrauded. Abbas “conspired to launder over $300 million” that “did not ultimately materialize,” the sentencing statement claims. The 40-year-old Ray Hushpuppi had more than two million Instagram followers at the time of his arrest in Dubai in 2020.
The money-laundering activities of Ray Hushpuppi
Abbas, a Nigerian Canadian, was charged with money laundering after it was discovered by the prosecution that he had obtained funds from several online crimes, including banking cyber-heists and BEC, or business email compromise, in which criminals break into a victim’s email account and pose as someone else to trick the victim into sending money to someone that doesn’t belong to them.
According to reports, Hushpuppi helped with the laundering of $14.7 million from a bank in Malta in 2019 as well as the transfer of funds through institutions in Romania and Bulgaria.
He also obtained $923,000 from a New York law firm and laundered millions of pounds from a British corporation and a famous British football team, among other criminal activities. Additionally, Ray Hushpuppi admitted to helping someone in Qatar launder $15 million.
His social media followers were certain that, as his profile stated, he was a real estate developer. The influencer, on the other hand, used internet hacking techniques to support his lavish lifestyle. One of his Instagram posts has the following caption:
I hope to someday encourage other young individuals to follow in my footsteps.
The scammer showcased his opulent lifestyle in another Instagram photo from 2020 and wrote:
I reserved a helicopter to travel to the Christian Dior spa in Paris for facials before beginning the day with lunch at Nobu in Monte Carlo, Monaco and ending it with champagne at Gucci.
His Instagram feed showed pictures of him posing with various car makes, such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Ferrari. He reportedly marked one of the pictures of his cars with the hashtag “#All Mine.”
On his profile, there were images of him mingling with famous athletes and celebrities. Hushpuppi described himself as the “Billionaire Gucci Master” on Snapchat. Detectives seized $41 million, around two million email addresses of potential victims, a phone, a computer, and 13 high-end vehicles worth a combined $6.8 million during his arrest in Dubai in 2020.
Two weeks before his arrest, he wrote on Instagram:
“Lord, I thank you for all of your blessings in my life.” Keep embarrassing those who are awaiting humiliation.
His Instagram account was inactive as of the time of writing.
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