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Alleged Fraud: Hushpuppi gets another lawyer

Muhammad A. Aliyu
By Muhammad A. Aliyu
Published: March 1, 2021
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Nigerian Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi who is on trial in the United States for business email compromise (BEC) frauds and other scams has hired a top-rated criminal defence lawyer Loius Shapiro as his attorney,  Premium Times reports.

The appointment follows the withdrawal of Gal Pissetzky and Vicki Podberesky as Hushpuppi’s lawyers after months of negotiations with the US government.

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A court order on February 25 approved Mr Shapiro as the Nigerian’s new defence counsel.

Shapiro was once a deputy public defender in Los Angeles County.

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He is also considered as one of the top criminal defence attorneys in Los Angeles as he regularly trains new attorneys in the “most effective approaches and methods to handling criminal law matters.”

Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice in its new findings accused Hushpuppi of working with North Korean hackers to launder funds stolen from a Maltese bank in February 2019.

The department said the cyberattacks were aimed at stealing and extorting more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies.

Hushpuppi was arrested in June 2020 in the United Arab Emirates and extradited to the US alongside his associate Olalekan Ponle popularly known as Woodberry to face allegations of money laundering running into millions of dollars.

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