Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi has appealed to the United States Judge Otis Wright to temper justice with mercy and hand him a lighter jail term ahead of his sentencing on September 21, saying he had become a changed person after scoring high in cleaning activities, reports Peoples Gazette.
Hushpuppi reportedly performed well and related well with other inmates. His report card for Central Valley workshop for prisoners showed the internet fraudster put up “very good” in attitude, quality of work, dependability and productivity between July 2021 when he enrolled and November 2021 when he completed work.
The Nigerian big boy has been incarcerated in the US for his role in a multinational conspiracy that earned him millions of dollars between 2019 and 2020.
Meanwhile, it has also come to light that he is likely to get a minimum sentence of 11 years imprisonment for helping US authorities to solve other cyber-related crimes.
His American attorneys led by Khaldoun Shobaki in the U.S. Central District of California (Los Angeles) argued that Hushpuppi should also be asked to pay $1.7 million in restitution; $500K in fines and $100 in administrative fees, per recommendations submitted ahead of his sentencing on September 21.
The development came more than two years after the infamous Internet fr@ud ringleader was arrested in Dubai in June 2020 for driving multiple schemes that targeted victims in Europe and the United States.
He pleaded guilty in April 2021 after prosecutors discovered his involvement in a separate conspiracy to defraud a Qatari businessperson, who lost $810K in the process of trying to obtain an elusive loan to set up an international school.
The prosecutors argued that their sentencing recommendations were appropriate considering the gravity of Hushpuppi’s crimes. The government said one of his co-conspirators Ghaleb Alaumary was sentenced to 140 years in jail for violating the same set of criminal codes.
SOURCE: www.Ghbase.com