Ramon Abass, fondly called Hushpuppi, who was detained in the UAE sometime around June 2020 over allegations bordering on hacking, impersonation, scamming, banking fraud and identity theft has pleaded guilty charges against him.
The social media personality who spends so much on luxurious things was accused of defrauding 1.9 million victims to the tune of N168 billion.
He was detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago ahead of his trial.
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.”
Ramon Abbas/Hushpuppi plea agreement to@courlistner/@RECAPthelaw/ for interested folks (and because there’s been a lot of bad information around this case from the beginning):https://t.co/u/uHJlir4rD4
— Evan Ratliff (@ev_rat) July 28,2021
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.”
Also it was further stated that the defendant must have known 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.”
Ramon risks a statutory maximum of 20 years imprisonment on agreeing to violate the USC, Section 1956 (h).