Another set of documents also showed that Ms. Agbabiaka was arrested in New Jersey and was subsequently released on $150,000 bond. The three are part of six accused, including Kyari, who will face three counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and serious identity theft in the United States District Court of the Central District Court of California.
Nigerian super cop Abba Kyari was also accused of aiding a US $1.1 million transnational cyber fraud together with three other people arrested. When the indictment was announced on July 26, the court issued an arrest warrant for the arrest of Mr Abba Kyari. Mr Kyari denied any wrongdoing in this matter. However, as court documents show, the US government described Mr. Kyari as a "high-risk defendant" when explaining the reasons for requesting an arrest warrant against him.
Hushpuppi (the so-called leader of the international fraud ring) was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and deported to the United States for trial. He recently admitted to conspiring to launder money, involving in fraudulent schemes and other crimes levelled against him by the FBI. Under the plea bargain agreement, the crime is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, with full compensation and other penalties.
How the fraud started:
A Quatari businessman was looking for a lender who would invest $15 million to build a school in Qatar. Juma is a Kenyan who lives in Nairobi and works with Raymond Abbas, also known as hushpuppi, and he promised the Quatari entrepreneur that he will provide them with loans.
Hushpubbi adopted the pseudonym "Malik" and claimed to be a US banker who would help facilitate disbursement of the loan. Hushpuppi and Juma tricked the businessman into making some financial transfers under the guise of taxes and other charges to speed up loans.
Hushpuppi contracted Mr. Chibuzor to design a decoy website to mislead the Quatari business tycoon into believing the loan has been approved and fund transfer processing. Mr. Innocenti reported that "Mr. Chibuzo was dissatisfied with his share of the crime proceed he received from Hushpuppi and dissuaded the victim businessman from paying other con don (bosses) to hijack the scheme."
While explaining in detail how the Quatari merchant was defrauded. Mr. Innocent said, "Hushpuppi, brought Mr. Kyari into the picture to arrange the arrest of rival financial con don, Mr Chibuzo following his discovery of Chibuzo's plan". After Mr. Chibuzo was arrested, the agent said: “Juma and Abbas persuaded the victim business man to wire above $299,983.58 to their account.”
“Kyari consciously participated in the plan, which allowed Abbas and Juma to continue to deceive without detection. The victim is a businessman and collects money from the company victim after the company victim is laundered," the court document added.
However, Mr. Kyari denied any wrongdoing in connection with this case. He said that he only responded to Hushpuppi's "distress" call, who claimed that Chibuzo wanted to kill his family. He stated that Chibuzo was arrested by his team and later released. According to him, it was discovered that Mr. Chibuzo did not have the kind of assassination plan that Hushpuppi said, but the two had money disagreement. Kyari claimed, "no one asked Hushpuppi for money to handle the case".
Kyari used Chibuzor's phone number to help track down Chibuzor and arrest him. After picking up and locking up Chibuzor, Kyari sent a photo of Chibuzor in police custody to Hushpuppi to confirm.
Nigerian law enforcement authorities said Thursday that they had begun "reviewing" allegations against Mr Kyari, a famous law enforcement officer. The photos of Chibuzor in the prison were sent to Hushpuppi, who eventually transferred fund to Mr Kyari's account. Kyari then transferred a cut to the officer who arrested Mr. Vincent. Kyari provided Abbas with a third-party Zenith bank account details, in which the funds were transferred.
Chibuzor's girlfriend tried to secure his release and even rallied Hushpuppi to obtain funds with which she could secure Chibuzor's release from custody. Hushpuppi informed Kyari of her move and reiterated his resolve to keep Chibuzor incarcerated. Mr. Kyari is said to have told Abbas that he would not allow Mr. Chibuzo's girlfriend to pay to remove Mr. Chibuzo from custody, as he did with any "normal arrest".
After being detained for a time, Chibuzor became very ill. It appeared that he had been exposed to a certain disease in the cell and was sent to hospital for treatment. Kyari sent a photo of seriously ill Chibuzor to Hushpuppi. Hushpuppi replied: "I see Chibuzor is really sick, but i don't sympathize with him for what he did." They both ended the conversation and agreed to release Chibuzor.
The other persons involved in the above case are Bolatito and another Morayo. These people helped these criminals transfer money by providing them with U.S. bank accounts; and they launder money for Huspupi in various ways; some of which include the purchase and delivery of Richard Mille watches worth about $250,000, which Bolitito delivered to Huspupi through Morayo .
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