Dubai has elaborated on how Hushpuppi was arrested and here goes:
1..Dubai launched a special operation code-named 'Operation Fox Hunt 2' to solve Hushpuppi’s case.
2..It took Dubai police less
than four months to crack the case. In the end, 12 gang members of
Hushpuppi’s were also arrested. Among them was Olalekan Ponle, aka Woodberry.
3..Dubai police describe Hushpuppi as “an international online scammer known as Ramon Olorunwa Abbas but who goes by Hushpuppi on social media platforms.” Hushpuppi was actually born Ramoni Igbalode.
4..To arrest Hushpuppi and his gang, six raids were carried out simultaneously as the suspects slept in their Dubai residences.
5..After months of
painstaking investigation and hours of monitoring the gang’s social
media accounts, a team of highly-trained Dubai police officers were able
to confirm the gang’s whereabouts and fraudulent activities.
6..Hushpuppi was arrested on multiple fraud charges for crimes committed in different parts of the world.
7..Dubai police say he often
boasted about his wealth and expensive possessions on social media;
claiming he was a successful businessman.
8..Dubai police tracked Hushpuppi's every move and took note of all his social media activities.
9..Hushpuppi and his gang
reportedly created fake pages for existing websites in order to redirect
victims’ payments to their own accounts.
10..Hushpuppi and his gang
hacked corporate emails and sent fake messages to clients in order to
redirect financial transfers and people’s bank details to their own
accounts.
11..Hushpuppi and his gang committed fraud amounting to 1.6 billion dirham (N168bn).
12..Police seized items worth
more than 150 million Dirhams from the gang after taking possession of
21 personal computers, 47 smartphones, 15 flash drives and 5 hard disks.
13..1, 926, 400 victims were allegedly scammed by Hushpuppi and his gang.
14..13 luxury cars worth 25
million Dirhams were bought by Hushpuppi and his gang with the money
stolen from people who have been scammed, according to the police.
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