{"id":1246671,"date":"2022-11-08T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/08\/us-court-orders-hushpuppi-to-pay-1-7m-to-victims\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:37:27","slug":"us-court-orders-hushpuppi-to-pay-1-7m-to-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/08\/us-court-orders-hushpuppi-to-pay-1-7m-to-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"US Court Orders Hushpuppi To Pay $1.7m To Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Hushpuppi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A United States District Court for the Central District of California, on Monday, ordered Nigerian social media influencer, Ramon Abass Olorunwa, popularly called Hushpuppi, to pay $1.7m in restitution to two victims he branded.<\/p>\n<p>Hushpuppi is currently serving 11 years in US prison. Justice Otis D. Wright II sentenced Hushpuppi for money laundering conspiracy through several online scams and flaunting of a luxurious, crime-funded lifestyle on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, in a statement issued by the court, stated that Abbas had bragged on social media about his lavish lifestyle \u2013 a lifestyle funded by his involvement in transnational fraud and money laundering conspiracies targeting victims around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis significant sentence is the result of years\u2019 worth of collaboration among law enforcement in multiple countries and should send a clear warning to international fraudsters that the FBI will seek justice for victims, regardless of whether criminals operate within or outside United States borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hushpuppi who had on July 28, 2021, pleaded guilty, also identified Abba Kyari, a serving Deputy Commissioner of Nigerian Police as an accomplice in his $1.1 million scam.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, a US Court on July 29, 2021, granted an FBI warrant to arrest Abba Kyari, who was further implicated after his conversation with Hushpuppi was released.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hushpuppi \u00a0 A United States District Court for the Central District of California, on Monday, ordered Nigerian social media influencer, Ramon Abass Olorunwa, popularly called Hushpuppi, to pay $1.7m in restitution to two victims he branded. Hushpuppi is currently serving 11 years in US prison. Justice Otis D. Wright II sentenced Hushpuppi for money laundering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19191,64,3332,1996,1367,2909],"class_list":["post-1246671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-1-7m","tag-court","tag-hushpuppi","tag-orders","tag-pay","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}