Nigerian Instagram influencer Ramon "Hushpuppi" Abbas, made headlines on Thursday (March 17), as reports claimed that he committed fraud and laundered over $400,000 while in prison. However, Gary Warner, the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama, took to Twitter to debunk the claims.
Warner tweeted, "People are asking me if it is true that #Hushpuppi laundered $400,000 in #Stimulus cards from in prison. The document they show is an edit of a June 2020 Affidavit. The new version is fake, intended to get people to visit a scammer EIP website."
Last July, Hushpuppi pleaded guilty in a California court to money laundering and other business email schemes amounting to nearly $24 million. In the plea, Hushpuppi pleaded guilty to inflicting loss amounts of $14.7 million on a bank in Malta, and $7.7 million losses for "victim companies" in a separate case linked to an unnamed Premier League Club. He also pleaded guilty to inflicting loss amounts of under $1 million involving an unnamed law firm and a Qatari businessman.
