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Hushpuppi laundered funds for North Korean hackers- US
Instagram influencer, Ramon Abbas, fondly referred to as Hushpuppi.
According to the United State of America’s Department of Justice, Hushpuppi laundered money for North Korean hackers.
The revelation was known when federal prosecutors in Los Angeles unsealed a case against one Ghaleb Alaumary, 37, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada for his role as a money launderer for the North Korean conspiracy, among other criminal schemes.
Alaumary agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering, a charge contained in a criminal information filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles on November 17, 2020.
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A CONVICTED fraudster who scammed $160,000 from his employer before selling a man $1200 worth of grog he did not have has narrowly avoided jail.
Ipswich District Court heard on Thursday that despite suffering ill health, David Hall had not been deterred from his offending.
His grog fraud was committed while on a suspended sentence for ripping off his employer.
Judge Bernard Porter QC made it very clear to Hall that a jail could still safely house him despite his many health issues.
David Malcolm Hall, 58, from North Booval, pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended jail sentence by reoffending.
Whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi still too ill to make it to court Staff Reporter > By Staff Reporter - 18 February 2021 - 16:03 Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi is still too ill to attend court. File photo. Image: Thapelo Morebudi/Sunday Times
The R1.8bn Bosasa fraud and corruption case was again postponed on Thursday.
One of the accused, Bosasa whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi, was too ill to attend the case.
The other three accused - former commissioner of correctional services Linda Mti, former correctional services CFO Patrick Gillingham and former Bosasa CFO Andries van Tonder - were present.
TimesLIVE previously reported that the matter relates to four tenders awarded to Bosasa and its subsidiaries, valued at more than R1.8bn, between August 2004 and 2007.