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By Emmanuel Okogba
Flamboyant social media celebrity Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, has again been named a co-conspirator in a case involving North Korean hackers.
Hushpuppi could receive up to 20 years in a US prison for laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for business email compromise (BEC) scams and other scams, including schemes targeting a US law firm, A foreign bank and an English Premier League football club. .
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles released the latest discovery in a case against one Ghaleb Alaumary for his role as a money launderer for the North Korean conspiracy, among other criminal schemes.
The statement obtained by Vanguard reads in part: “Alaumary agreed to plead guilty to the charge, which was filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles on November 17, 2020.
“Alaumary was a prolific money launderer for hackers involved in ATM cash withdrawal schemes, cyber-enabled bank robberies, business email compromise (BEC) schemes and other online fraud schemes. Alaumary is also being prosecuted for his participation in a separate BEC scheme by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia.
“With respect to the activities of North Korean co-conspirators, Alaumary organized teams of co-conspirators in the United States and Canada to launder millions of dollars obtained through ATM cash withdrawals, including from BankIslami. and a bank in India in 2018.
“Alaumary also conspired with Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, aka” Ray Hushpuppi, “and others to launder funds from a North Korean cyber heist from a Maltese bank in February 2019.”
Hushpuppi was arrested on June 10 along with Olalekan Jacob Ponle (Woodbery). They were said to have been involved in crimes spanning money laundering, hacking, identity theft, scam, bank fraud and identity theft.
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