Hushpuppi’s google account was one of the things that made the FBI’s job of tracking him successful, according to documents seen by The Cable.
The flamboyant internet fraudster was arrested in Dubai in June 2020 and later extradited to the United States following a series of criminal activities allegedly linked to him.
Hushpuppi is facing charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering before a U.S. court.
In a document signed by Andrew Innocenti, a special agent of the FBI, Hushpuppi, co-conspirator 1, and co-conspirator 2 are accused of participating in fraudulent schemes involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
The FBI reveals that an analysis of the iPhone and online account belonging to co-conspirator 1 showed that messages were exchanged with Hushpuppi, requesting accounts into which funds realized from the money laundering schemes could be sent to.
The document reads:
Based on records from Instagram received in June 2020, the Instagram account was subscribed with the name “RAY,” the email address, rayhushpuppi@gmail.com, and the verified phone number +971502818689 (“Phone Number 2”).
The Instagram account was created on October 10, 2012, and recent account history from 2020 showed logins from Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses located in the U.A.E.2 (ABBAS lives in the U.A.E., based on information from his email and social media accounts, financial records, and internet research).
Based on subscriber records from Snap Inc., the Snapchat account “Hushpuppi5” used the phone number +971565505984 (“Phone Number 3”) and the email address rayhushpuppi@gmail.com (i.e., the same email as the Instagram account).
The Snapchat account used the display name “The Billionaire Gucci Master!!!,” which was the same Snapchat contact name saved in Coconspirator 1’s phone for the Snapchat account “Hushpuppi5.”
The document also details records from Apple Inc., as well as Hushpuppi’s Gmail account which showed invoices, tenancy contracts, flight itinerary, Dubai visa, a Nigerian passport, among other documents all directly linked to him.
Details of a conversation between the suspects were also retrieved:
On February 12, 2019, Co-conspirator 1 told ABBAS: “Wire is completed… We did it [500k euros]… Should be on ur side by now.”
In the conversation that ensued, co-conspirator 1 reportedly told Hushpuppi that there was only one wire to the account in Romania:
Sender name: tipico group limited. Country : [Foreign Financial Institution Country] Amount : 500k euro…”
Later, while trying to find out if the wire had been successful, co-conspirator 1 was said to have added: “They did me 3 wires (2 to euro 1 to USA)… Bank it came from is:[Foreign Financial Institution].
The document added that the sender wrote: “Brother, we still have access and they didn’t realize, we gonna shoot again tomoro am.”
