Fraud: Hushpuppi Abba Kyari's co-conspirator to get extradited

Abdulrahman Juma, a businessman from Kenya, will be extradited to the United States of America to answer to allegations of money laundering, according to a Kenyan court.

The orders permitting American authorities to file charges for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and aggravated identity theft were given by Milimani Chief Magistrate Wendy Micheni on Friday.

Ms. Micheni insisted that there was no proof that Mr. Juma wouldn't get a fair trial in the United States.

“The fugitive is said to be part of a syndicate that orchestrated a scheme with his co-conspirators who are already before the United States District Court for the Central District of California to defraud a victim who was seeking a lender to invest in a project to build a school,” documents from the office of Director of Public Prosecution said

Juma is accused of participating in a global fraud operation to defraud a businessman who wanted to engage in a multimillion-dollar project to build a school in Qatar.

According to court records, Mr. Juma and notorious Nigerian internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, often known online as Hushpuppi, planned to scam a Qatari business and its owner in December 2019. When Mr. Abbas boarded the ship, Mr. Juma had already been in communication with the victim.

Abbas began conversing with the victim while assuming the identity of Malik, a Wells Fargo Bank employee. Then, using the name of the Qatari victim company, both men opened a bank account at the Wells Fargo Bank in Canoga Park, California.

According to the report, Messrs. Abbas and Juma defrauded the victim between December 19 and December 24, 2019, by tricking her into paying $330,000 to finance an investor's account in order to effectuate a $15 million loan.

Abba Kyari, a suspended police officer, was one of five people Mr. Abbas was accused of conspiring with, in a $1.1 million fraud case when he was indicted in the Juma case by the government investigation.

After numerous petitions, Abbas and his attorney Louis Shapiro were successful in persuading U.S. district judge Otis D. Wright to postpone his sentencing last week. Now set for November 3, the sentencing hearing.

Without access to all the Juma case materials, Shapiro asserted that Mr. Abbas would not have been able to prepare for his sentencing hearing.

In July 2021, Abbas entered a plea agreement with American authorities and admitted guilt to charges of multimillion-dollar fraud.

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