One of Ray Hushpuppi’s targets was the English Premier League soccer club from which he tried to steal £100m (approximately $125 million).
Roman Abbas, aka Ray Hushpuppi, is a famous Nigerian social media star and followed by millions on Instagram where he often posts about his lavish lifestyle. Perhaps this has landed him into trouble, as law enforcement authorities were skeptical of how he became super-rich, and further probe led to some startling revelations about the Nigerian Instagrammer.
These days, Hushpuppi is in hot waters as a US court has charged him for running a global BEC scam and targeting a Premier League Club to steal £100 million which is approximately $125 million.
Reportedly, the FBI was investigating the involvement of the 37-year-old Instagrammer in money laundering and BEC scams for months. They could track Hushpuppi’s movement by following his posts on his Instagram account, which has over 2.4 million followers.
Hushpuppi regularly posted on Instagram, and he was always dressed in high-end designer clothing, wore expensive watches, and traveled in charter jets or luxury cars.
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The law enforcement officials suspected that Abbas was financing his lavish lifestyle through illegal means of earning. His last Instagram post in June shows a Rolls-Royce with the hashtag AllMine and this caption from Hushpuppi:
“May success and prosperity not be a ‘once upon a time’ story in your life.”
According to the US Justice Department’s arrests famous instagrammer hushpuppi
