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Dubai Police revealed on Thursday that alleged criminal mastermind Raymond Igbalode Abbas, known as ‘Hushpuppi’ and accomplice Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as ‘Woodberry’ have been extradited from the United Arab Emirates to the United States.
This was announcement was made in a statement by the Dubai Police via it’s Twitter page on Thursday, in which the US Federal Bureau of Investigations extended its gratitude to the UAE crime unit for its role in apprehending and extraditing ‘Hushpuppi’.
The suspects were accused of “committing crimes outside the UAE, including money-laundering, cyber fraud, hacking, criminal impersonating, scamming individuals, banking fraud and identity theft,” the Dubai Police said.
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The director of Dubai CID, Brigadier Jamal Salem Al Jallaf said the raid that led to their arrest resulted in the confiscation of incriminating documents of a planned fraud on a global scale worth AED 1.6 billion ($ 435 million).
The team also seized more than AED 150 million ($40.9 million) in cash, 13 luxury cars with an estimated value of AED 25 million ($6.8 million) obtained from fraud crimes, and confiscated 21 computer devices, 47 smartphones, 15 memory sticks, five hard disks containing 119,580 fraud files as well as addresses of 1,926,400 victims.
