A court in the Northern District of Illinois on Monday denied Ramon Abbas aka Ray Hushpuppi bail.
The
self-acclaimed ‘Billionaire Gucci Master’, who has over 2.5 million
followers on Instagram, will remain in detention until his trial later
this year over money laundering allegations, the court said.
Hushpuppi
will be transported to Los Angeles by the United States Marshals
Service, and will not be allowed to stay with his girlfriend’s uncle in
Homewood, Illinois.
His trial is slated to hold in Los Angeles
where the case was filed, rather from Chicago where the investigation is
being handled, Forbes reports.
Throughout the hearing,
Hushpuppi’s lawyer denied that his client was a flight risk or a danger
to the community, repeatedly rejecting the allegations made against his
client by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s affidavit posted earlier
this month.
The primary allegation levelled by the FBI is that
Abbas was part of a network that made “hundreds of millions of dollars”
from business email compromise frauds and other scams.
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