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  • Hushpuppi’s Close Associate, Woodberry, Pleads Guilty, Forfeits $8m, Other Assets

    Hushpuppi’s Close Associate, Woodberry, Pleads Guilty, Forfeits $8m, Other Assets

    Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as Mr Woodberry, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

    He also agreed to forfeit $8 million in proceeds of wire fraud as well as luxury cars and watches to the foreign government.

    Woodberry, a known associate of the now-imprisoned internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, recently in a plea declaration submitted at the United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division on April 6, pleaded guilty to count one of the indictments, the Peoples Gazette reports.

    According to his plea agreement, he is required to pay back the sum of $8 million he fraudulently received from the seven companies that he scammed.

  • Dubai Police confirms extradition of Hushpuppi, Woodberry to US

    Dubai Police confirms extradition of Hushpuppi, Woodberry to US

    Suspected Nigerian fraudsters, Ramon Igbalode Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi and Olalekan Jacon Ponle a.k.a Mr Woodberry have been extradited to the United States.

    Both were arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates over high-level fraud, money-laundering and cyber-crimes.

    In a tweet on the instagram handle of the Dubaipolicehq confirming this, the Director of the FBI extended his appreciations to Dubai Police for their cooperation in extraditing the wanted criminals.

    “The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray has praised the exceptional efforts exerted by the United Arab Emirate, represented bu the Dubai Police General HQ, in combating transnational organised cybercrime including the rrecent arrest of Raymod Igbalode Abbas, known as “Hushpuppi” and Olalekan Jacon Ponle aka “Woodberry” who were taken down in opetation “Fox Hunt 2”.

    “Mr Wray also extended his appreciations to Dubai Police for their cooperation in extraditing the wanted criminals, who committed money-laundering and multiple-cybercrimes, to the United States”.