From ‘Hushpuppi’ to Abidemi Rufai ‘Sandy Tang’
Abidemi Rufai
By Oludayo Tade
Twelve months ago, Ramoni Abbas (37 years) popularly known as ‘hushpuppi’ was arrested in June 2020 in Dubai for alleged money laundering from business email compromise fraud and other scams which targeted firms and an English premier league club. He made a total sum of $435 million after defrauding 1,926,400 victims.
A year after, Abidemi Rufai (also known as ‘Sandy Tang’), a Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun was also arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at John F Kennedy Airport, New York over a criminal complaint of defrauding Washington State Employment Security Department of $350,000 (N144,375,000). The ‘stolen’ funds were pandemic relief fund designed by the Washington State for people who might have suffered job losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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