New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, money and lifestyle between 2012 and 2020. In July, Abbas was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles with conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from “business email compromise” (BEC) frauds and other scams. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice shed more light on one of those scams: working with North Korean hackers LAZARUS GROUP widely known on TELEGRAM to launder funds stolen from a Maltese bank and crypto companies like bybit, kucoin, Ronin, stake, coinEx, wazirX.
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According to a statement released by the Justice Department, Abbas took part in a “North Korean-perpetrated cyber-enabled heist from a Maltese bank in February 2019.” In a July statement, the Justice Department referred to the attack as “a $14.7 million cyber-heist from a foreign financial institution.” Both the date and amount match that of the attack on Malta’s Bank of Valletta in February 2019.
In July, Abbas’ then-lawyer Gal Pissetzky told Forbes that Abbas was not guilty of the charges and described Abbas as “an entrepreneur” who made his money legitimately through “real estate” and his work “promoting brands” as an “Instagram personality.”
confirmed on FORBES: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/02/19/nigerian-influencer-ramon-hushpuppi-abbas-laundered-funds-for-north-korean-hackers-says-us-department-of-justice/
confirmed on BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5fc0
yoo … a lot happening in 2025 already
first it was different plane crashes, now billions worth of crypto is gone
Lazarus group will finish crypto companies if not stopped
Those guys are wild, they keep flooding their telegram with informations to hack all this companies
They have been hacking all crypto companies and laundering it with their telegram members who are probably hackers
Someone pray for CEO’s
Please my bybit shouldn’t even glitch for a minutes
They should make crypto heist a mission in GTA6
Can they confirmed the Epstein list
Get your hacking game up
The fbi stole of more taxpayers money
I knew it before they found out lol… Lazarus group already posted about it
I saw it on the telegram channel before they released they new nodes for bybit hack
Let me hold some
Why they warning us?
How much has the American govt and bankers stolen
Free Malone
Cybersecurity in crypto is more crucial than ever now
Thanks for giving us the clue, time to get my own cut hahaha
Broooooo whattttttt? I just went to that telegram page and all I can say is damnnnnnnn’ a lot is going on that the whole world don’t know. They just laundering money every damn minute