Hushpuppi bags 11 years imprisonment In US court

Popular Instagram big boy, Hushpuppi has been sentenced to 11 years in imprisonment by the United States Central District Court in California over fraud and money laundering.

Hushpuppi, who had previously served two years in prison, is currently anticipated to serve nine additional years in prison in the US.

The contentious social media star was detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in June 2020 along with 12 accomplices on suspicion of hacking, impersonating, scamming, banking fraud, and identity theft. She was later extradited to the US for prosecution.

He was also charged with running a sophisticated fraud scheme that defrauded his victims in the United States, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and other countries.

Hushpuppi was detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in June 2020 as a result of an extensive fraud scheme that defrauded victims in the United States, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and other countries of their money.

After that, Hushpuppi was taken to the US, where he was accused of fraud and money laundering. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering with multiple people within and outside the US to ladder the proceedings.

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The socialite however bagged only 11 years in prison after he appealed to US Judge Otis Wright to temper justice with mercy and a lighter jail term after scoring high in cleaning activities while in prison.

Note that Hushpuppi’s Instagram page, which has 2.8 million followers, has vanished from the image-sharing platform. It is however unclear whether it was officially removed from Instagram or if the page was temporarily disabled by someone with access to it.

In other news, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the embattled former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

Senator Ekweremadu is currently in custody in the United Kingdom, over allegations of organ harvesting.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, made the order following an ex-parte motion marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1242/2022 filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba on behalf of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

In a short ruling on the exparte motion, the Judge ordered the anti-graft agency to publish the interim forfeiture order of the properties in a national daily within seven days from the date the order was given.

Justice Ekwo specifically asked anybody interested in the properties covered by the interim forfeiture order to indicate within 14 days of the publication of the interim forfeiture order of the court. The adjourned till December 5, 2022, for a report, if there is any objection from any member of the public regarding the properties.