Popular Nigerian journalist Deji Faremi has claimed that suspected fraudster, Ramon Abbas popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi scammed a Serie A club.
In 2018, an Italian daily newspaper, Il Tempo reported that Lazio fell for a scam email which featured Feyenoord’s badge and was written convincingly.
Without doing the necessary checks, the Rome side reportedly found out that the Eredivisie club hadn’t received the money, and that the IBAN number had been changed so the large sum could be directed into the scammers’ account.
Il Tempo claimed that a prosecutor tracked down the money to a different Dutch bank account.
De Vrij, who joined the Serie A side in 2014 was set to leave them on a free transfer that summer before the huge scam.
According to Deji, the scam Lazio fell for and paid the final €2 million instalment of Stefan De Vrij transfer fee into an account pretending to be Feyenoord’s was masterminded by Hushpuppi who is now facing a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in a US federal prison after being extradited from Dubai to the United States.
The Journalist revealed this in a tweet, where he wrote;
“Remember in 2018 when Lazio reportedly fell for a scam, and paid the final €2 million instalment of Stefan De Vrij transfer fee into an account pretending to be Feyenoord’s?
Yup, that was Hushpuppi.”
See his tweet below;
Remember in 2018 when Lazio reportedly fell for a scam, and paid the final €2 million instalment of Stefan De Vrij transfer fee into an account pretending to be Feyenoord's?
Yup, that was Hushpuppi. pic.twitter.com/JNsASGV0VE
— Deji Faremi (@deejayfaremi) July 5, 2020
In other news, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has disclosed the mode of operation through which suspected Nigerian swindler, Hushpuppi, and his gang were tracked until he was arrested in Dubai.
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