Hushpuppi Faces 20 Years Prison Time

Alleged Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, will likely face up to 20 years in prison.

The international lawyers who were representing alleged Nigerian-Dubai-based fraudster Abass Ramon well known as Ray Hushpuppi have applied to withdraw from his case.

The US Lawyers, Gal Pissetzky and Vicki Podberesky said Mr. Abass also known as Hushpuppi has stopped communicating with them and has retained new lawyers to defend him in the case.

According to American Journalist, Evan Ratliff, the self-proclaimed “Billionaire Gucci Master’ pled guilty to the charges leveled against him and he will likely face up to 20 years in Prison.

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UPDATE: Ramon Abbas aka Ray Hushpuppi agreed today to plead guilty in federal court to conspiracy to engage in money laundering, of funds from business email compromise scams and other online heists. He’ll face up to 20 years in prison at sentencing.

In his plea agreement, Abbas admitted to laundering money from the Malta Bank heist and the BEC attacks on a Premier League club, another UK firm, and an American law firm, as well as additional schemes.

Abbas’s plea agreement, which involved crimes allegedly perpetrated by North Korean state sponsored hackers, was heavily redacted, and many of the filings in the case remain sealed.