HOW RAMON OLORUNWA AKA 'HUSHPUPPI' & MR. WOODBERY BECAME THE MOST POPULAR NIGERIANS HOME & ABROAD DEAD OR ALIVE CURRENTLY.

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas,37 aka Hushpuppi

Olalekan Jacob Ponle, 29 aka Mr. Woodbery

If for anything worth saluting, both Hushpuppi & Me. Woodbery must be saluted for remaining in our consciousness for so long like this.

From the days they both started showing off their prowess, most especially Hushpuppi, till after he and cohorts were officially arrested on June 10, 2020 as they lounged with abandon in the cocoon of their enclave not having the slightest inkling of what was about to befall them, till this very moment and even till sometime later in the future that is still unfolding, he meaning Hushhpuppi most especially would be in our consciousness, as more and more details of their outrageous schemes/skills would daily unfold.

This dude and his co-international scammers were exceptional in their unbridled greed close to $500million being proceeds of their crime is no joke and their extreme or wanton or outrageous display of the proceeds of the crime is also exceptionally incredulous! From their seemingly unending crazy purchases of the latest fashion garbs to the acquisitions of the best of wrist watches that costs an arm and a leg, outrageous & outlandish jewelry and more, to the buying of the best and most expensive cars or machines money could afford like they were feeding a frenzy. The cost of each person's car collection alone couldn't have been less than $2.5million dollars each!

From him just being a so called celebrated social media sensation with millions of admirers, followers, lapping audience- 2.4million and still growing at that, he and his 29 year old main henchman- Olalekan Jacob Ponle aka Mr. Woodbery have so gained immeasurable & unbelievable notoriety, that they have become the most popular Nigerians home and abroad currently. Check out the pages of traditional media platforms and also online platforms too, either at home or abroad and you would see both featuring prominently like all others who are featured like very important people too! Imagine that from crime- money laundering, e-mail compromise schemes, scamming and the likes, they became heroes, icons & celebrities to many. You needed to see many people, so called VVIPs who fell over themselves to be seen with the Nigerian rich kid of Dubai! Many of those people have now come out to vehemently deny their friend in his time of need. 

No government officials-including Governors, Ministers, Ambassadors & maybe even the President from Nigeria are as popular currently, like these duo and none has featured in the news as much as these duo in recent times, most especially Hushpuppi who has been tagged as the major culprit in the scamming business & other criminal acts. Just the same way Pablo Escobar & El Chapo were seen as celebrated criminals, is the same way these 2 have become now.

Just imagine that their cases, victims and tentacles spans 4 continents- Asia, Africa, Europe & America! From Turkey to Malaysia to Dubai, in the UAE which was their main base or headquarters, where Hushpuppi & Mr. Woodbery were domiciled & still have residency permit that's still intact till 2022 to Nigeria where they both actually hail from initially and then some or another African country where it is claimed Hushpuppi has vast real estate investments (reason for his latter claims as real estate investor) to the UK where he & others tried unsuccessfully to scam an English Football Premier League Club of a staggering £100 million Pounds, to Romania, Canada, Mexico where they seem to have bank accounts ready for their schemes/scams to St. Kitts & Nevis, where Hushpuppi is thought to have bought their Citizenship (which is possible for an investment of at least $195,000) and to the US, which was the actual main target of their schemes/scams, hence why the FBI, Secret Service were involved in their cases.

The 2 main culprits for now are Ramon (Ramoni/Raymond) Olorunwa Igbalode Abbas, 37, date of birth October 11, 1982 making him 37 he would be 38 this year. At least according to his Nigerian passports details- the one he got from Malaysia in 2015, the other one he later got in Abu Dhabi and other documents-including his Dubai residency permit it seems that his real name is actually 'Ramon Olorunwa Abbas' with D.O.B October 11, 1982. Olalekan Jacob Ponle his henchman is actually said to be just 29 year old! Just 29 and already an alleged crime Lord????

If all we hear is as true as it should be loads more Nigerians that were prominently involved with these scammers are set to be invited/arrested too by the almighty FBI to come explain their parts or involvements in the many international scams they helped to facilitate.

Unconfirmed reports also says that much as Hushpuppi & Mr. Woodbery were the popular loud braggarts known by most as the kingpins, who made sizeable amounts/chunks from the monies they made from their illegal schemes, there were actually 'high-powered middlemen' involved too, who are co-collaborators and who actually gave out their accounts or facilitated accounts across the globe where the stolen funds were paid into & who by virtue of their interventions, actually collected bigger percentages between 50 to 60% of the stolen funds leaving 40 to 50% for Hush and company.

Also according to unconfirmed reports, there were those also that supposedly engaged Hushpuppi too in money laundering schemes, some of these people are said to be powerful Nigerians in high places and who are well connected and would prefer to live their lives away from any form of scrutiny of any kind.

To show their international connection and profile, it has been said that, though not fully confirmed as at yet, that the duo may have engaged a very high profile lawyer, one who had defended a late super star years back to be their legal representative.

The duo faced their first of many court cases last week in Chicago where the complaint against them was read with a 26 pages supporting affidavit which chronicled a lot of what they and their cohorts perpetrated brazenly.

Hushpuppi's case in Chicago read as USA vs. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas aka Hushpuppi aka Hush case now 2:20-my-02992 dated 06/25/20.

According to the FBI

1. He financed his opulent lifestyle through crime.
2. He is viewed as one of the leaders of a transnational crime network.
3. He has multiple co-conspirators like co-conspirator 1 & co-conspirator 2 well mentioned in the affidavit.
4. Apart from the BEC schemes, they also went after foreign financial institution that they tried to scam of €13million Euros in February 2019.
5. The co-conspirator 1 had actually been arrested since 2019 and loads of damning evidences were gotten from him, either from his phones and more.
6. Hush had provided accounts in Europe where €5million Euros was to have been paid into.
7. Confirmed nos linked to Hushpuppi are 3, +971543777711, +97150818689 & +971565505984.
8. All the 3 nos as were found, were connected to all his correspondence, either Instagram account, Snapchat account, Apple account and even his Gmail account-rayhushpuppi@gmail.com
9. On his resident permit he claimed to be the General Manager of MoneAbbas Group FZE.
10. His resident address was 1706 Palazzo Versace in Dubai, UAE.
11. Hushpuppi and co had been under surveillance since 2019 and his online posh lifestyle is part of the evidences against him.
12. He got a St. Kitts citizenship in February 2020 with his name and date of birth on it. And he seems to have other passports with other aliases too.

The complaint and 26 pages affidavit is below click on Read more below-