Nigerian internet sensation Hushpuppi has been transferred to Los Angeles, California where his trial for internet fraud and money laundering would be heard.

The 37 year-old social media millionaire braggart, whose real name is Ramon Olorunwa Abbas faces a maximum term of twenty years in American prison if he is found guilty of money laundering among other charges.

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Hushpuppi is known for his extravagant lifestyle which he proudly displays on his Instagram page. It is believed his jawbreaking frivolous spendings were bankrolled with money earned from his illicit dealings.

He was extradited to the United States earlier this month after more than three weeks in the custody of the Dubai police.

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The Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has apprehended six persons in relation to the hacking and subsequent siphoning of GH₵ 48 million from a bank’s software and onward transfers to eight people saving with different banks.

The Cyber Crime Unit which falls under the police’s Criminal Investigations Department arrested a former banker and owner of Adom Sika Savings and Loans Limited, Sam Acquah, and a software specialist, James Taylor, believed to be the architects of the whole fraud.

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The four other accomplices, Hudu Abdul Mumuni, Emmanuel Adams, Moro Issah and Agbenu Febous Chrissy were nabbed when they attempted to withdraw the money at different banks.

However two other suspects of the syndicate who were identified as Boateng Mends and Pussy Cat managed to abscond before they could be apprehended.

The syndicate succeeded in infiltrating the bank’s system and transferred huge sums of money into their individual accounts at diiferent banks.

The affected bank then lodged a complaint with the police outfit which began an investigation immediately. The police informed the other banks of the illegal transfer and ordered them to refuse withdrawal.

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The four men were arrested at different locations in their attempts to withdraw the illegally wired money. Sam Acquah and James Taylor were later picked up during preliminary investigation.

The police in a statement added that the suspects would be arraigned before a law court soon while efforts are made to arrest the other two who absconded.

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Convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke aka H-Money, who is currently serving a 24-year jail term at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos, is again being investigated by EFCC for allegedly masterminding a $1million scam from prison.

A statement by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Tuesday, reads: “He allegedly pulled the heist right from prison using a network of accomplices, some of them targets of fraud and money laundering investigation.

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The lid on his latest fraud exploits from Kirikiri was blown following intelligence received by the EFCC. The immediate riddle that confronted the EFCC was how it was possible for the convict to continue operating from prison.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the convict, against established standard practice, had access to internet and mobile phone in the Correctional Centre where he is supposed to be serving his jail term.

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Even more puzzling was the finding that Aroke got himself admitted to the Nigeria Police Hospital, Falomo, Lagos, for an undisclosed ailment. And from the hospital, he would move out to lodge in hotels, meet with his wife and two children and attend other social functions. .

The circumstance of his admission into the hospital and those who aided his movement from the hospital to hotels and other social engagements is already being investigated by the EFCC.

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For a felon supposedly serving a jail term, investigation revealed that the Aroke used a fictitious name, Akinwunmi Sorinmade, to open two accounts with First Bank and GTB. .

He also bought a property at Fountain Spring Estate, in Lekki, in 2018 for N22million and a Lexus RX 350 2018 model registered in his wife’s name, Maria Jennifer Aroke.

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The convict was also in possession of his wife’s bank account token in prison, which he used to freely transfer funds. Further investigation revealed that, while on trial in 2015, he bought a four bedroom duplex at Plot 12, Deji Fadoju Street, Megamounds Estate, from Lekki County Homes, Lekki, for N48m.

Aroje was arrested in 2012 s and sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2016.”

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The EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has brought to light the activities of Hope Olusegun Aroke alias H-Money, a sentenced internet fraudster currently serving a 24-year jail term.

The convict was revealed to be still in active communication with other high valued targets that are currently being investigated by the Commission for various offences relating to cyber crime and money laundering.

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Investigations revealed that he coordinated the commission of internet scam worth over $100m whilst serving his jail term.

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In 2016, Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja convicted and sentenced Aroke, then a 25-year-old undergraduate of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia, to 24-years imprisonment for his involvement in an internet scam that brought him N25million.

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Zone 2 Police PRO, Dolapo Badmus, has thrown an epic shade at cyber criminals by way of revealing the effort security agencies have put in a bid to alleviate the menace of internet fraud.

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She stressed that 2019 has been a very bad year for ‘Yahoo boys’, adding that internet fraud is not a profession.

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Her post reads;

“If what I’m reading here is true, then it’s been a very tough year for those engaging in cybercrime, from January till date (and obviously for ever) it has been arrest upon arrest!

I am thinking, it’s a resolution of all security agencies all over the world to put a stop to this menace! I then imagine, what shall it profit a man to buy laptop and press till day break only to end up in the hand of detectives in order to be jailed!?

Dear Youth, Yahoo Yahoo is not a profession, it’s a means to a destructive end! Be guided.”

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