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‘Billionaire Gucci Master’ May Appear in Court Monday
NEWSWATCHNIGERIA can report that the self acclaimed ‘Billionaire Gucci Master’ Ramon Abbas, (A.k.A Husspuppi) has secured a heavy weight criminal defense attorney in Chicago in the latest development on his fraud allegation case with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
If the words of Mr Abbas’s legal representative, Gal Pissetzky of Pissetzky & Berliner, is anything to go by, the embattled 37-years-old Nigerian will soon secure a NOT-GUILTY VERDICTS & CASE DISMISSALS in the United States court of jurisdiction over the fraud and scam allegations.
In a recent published article on Forbes the Husspuppi’s legal firm -repute for over 20 years trial-tested defense – stated that his client is “Absolutely not guilty of [the] charges they are accusing him of,” adding, “[Abbas] was running a legitimate business and a very legitimate Instagram account and did not take part in any scam or fraud.”
Asked how Abbas paid for his lifestyle, Pissetzky told Forbes, “He’s an entrepreneur. He has real estate involvement … [he’s] an Instagram personality. He was promoting brands and that’s how he was very legitimately making his money.”
On his relationship with Premier League footballers Tammy Abraham ( Chelsea) and Ezri Konsa(Aston Villa), and the English Premier League Husspuppy’s lawyer says, “Mr Abbas is friends with a lot of people. Somebody who has that many followers – obviously he knows and has friends in a lot of places … it’s all legitimate.”
Recall that Abbas is accused of a “scheme to steal” $124 million from an English Premier League soccer club in May 2019. The U.S. Department of Justice is at this time unable to confirm further details of the club in question.
However, at $124 million the sum involve is larger than any single player transfer ever paid by any team in the league, and details are scant on how exactly a figure of such size could be obtained through the methods cited in the FBI’s affidavit. The Premier League has not yet responded to questions.
The FBI also alleges that a New York-based law firm was defrauded out of approximately $922,800 through a combination of computer hacking and social engineering to gain access to a business’ email account, send fraudulent emails to receive an unauthorized wire transfer of money. Abbas is also accused of laundering $396,050 of the funds alongside two co-conspirators, one of whom was in Los Angeles at the time.
Recall that Abbas faces criminal charges over allegations he has made “hundreds of millions of dollars” from business email compromise frauds and other scams which also embroiled a foreign financial institution in the sum of $14.7 million. He was arrested in Dubai, UAE, and arrived in the U.S. on Friday July 3.
According to the Bureau of Prisons website, Abbas is currently being held in MCC Chicago pending a bail hearing. Nobody could visit him at the facility because authority has suspended visiting at the facility until further notice.
The police press statement following his arrest states that if convicted of conspiracy to engage in money laundering, Abbas would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. A hearing in Chicago on Monday will determine if Abbas will be detained pending trial.
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