Hushpuppi: The Billionaire Gucci Master Who Wasn't a Billionaire (Ramon Abbas)

Liner notes

Designer clothes. Luxury cars. Private jets. Expensive watches. Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, built an enormous social media following by showcasing a lifestyle that looked almost unreal.

But behind the photographs and displays of wealth was an international web of cyber-enabled fraud and money laundering. Investigators would eventually connect him to schemes involving a Qatari businessman, a foreign financial institution, a law firm and other victims across multiple countries.

In this episode, we trace Hushpuppi's rise, the people and operations behind the money, the investigation that brought his Dubai lifestyle to an abrupt end, and the legal proceedings that followed.

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