Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass Olorunwa, popularly known as Hushpuppi has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in federal prison for conspiring to launder millions of dollars from online scams.
He was sentenced by the United States District Court for the Central District of California on Monday.
Justice Otis Wright II, who delivered the judgment , found Hushpuppi guilty of laundering proceeds of school financing scam, business email compromise fraud and other cyber schemes.
The judge in Los Angeles also ordered him to pay $1,732,841 (£1,516,182) in restitution to two fraud victims.
Abbas will serve his sentence of 135 months in a federal prison.
Last year he pleaded guilty to money laundering.
Abbas admitted to attempting to steal more than $1.1m from someone who wanted to fund a new children’s school in Qatar, court documents in California say.
He also admitted to “several other cyber and business email compromise schemes that cumulatively caused more than $24 million in losses”, the US justice department said.
The judgment draws the curtain on Hushpuppi’s trial spanning two years and four months since his arrest in June 2020 at his Dubai hotel apartments and extradited to the United States on July 3.
