Hushpuppi again, he has been accused for funds laundering with North Korea hackers.

Hushpuppi again, he has been accused for funds laundering with North Korea hackers. 

Ramon Abbas (alias Hushpuppi), an influential American Instagram, is now under new criminal charges, where he is currently charged with fraud and other scams for plotting to launder money obtained from commercial emails.

The Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday that the Nigerian-born suspected fraudster cooperated with North Korean hackers to launder funds stolen from a Maltese bank. Specifically, Huspuppi is said to have participated in the "netized robbery committed by North Korea from a Maltese bank in February 2019".

Forbes magazine reported that the Department of Justice called the attack a $14.7 million cyber robbery from a foreign financial institution.

The date and amount match the date and amount of the attack on Valletta Bank in Malta in February 2019.

Abbas's name appears in the details of a series of destructive cyber attacks involving North Korean military hackers, stealing and extorting more than $1.3 billion in currency and cryptocurrencies from financial institutions and companies.

Paul Arbat, deputy director of the FBI, expanded the FBI's accusation of "unprecedented cyberattacks by the North Korean regime" in 2018 in an unsealed indictment on Wednesday. Assistant Attorney General John C. Agents from the Ministry of National Security of the Ministry of Justice added: "As stated in today's indictment, North Korean agents use keyboards instead of guns to steal cryptocurrency digital wallets instead of cash bags. They are the world's leading bank robbers.

The United States accused Zhou Changxiao, a 31-year-old Korean, Kim Il, aged 27, and Park Kim-chao, aged 36, of being members of the General Inspectorate (RGB) of the Military Intelligence Agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Korean). The three North Koreans described in the statement are related to the "North Korean military hacking forces" called Lazarus Group and Advanced Continued Threat 38 (APT38) in the cybersecurity community.

Abbas is related to a series of "conspiracy of a wide range of criminal network activities", namely money laundering and attacks on specific parts of "foreign financial institutions".

Abbas was involved in North Korea's plot this week, when federal prosecutors uncovered charges against Galeb Allari, 37, Ontario, Canada. Aluminum pleaded guilty to the allegations made in November 2020 in connection with him as a money launderer of North Korean groups. The Ministry of Justice linked Abbas to North Korean hackers through the aluminum industry, who called his "conspiracy" Ray Hushpuppi to "plunder the funds of North Korean cyber robbers from a Maltese bank in February 2019".

Although the attack was largely unsuccessful, it was so serious in Malta that its Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was forced to address Parliament in 2019 about what the Malta Times called "creating false international payments, leading to transfers of 13 million euros to banks in four countries". It is reported that these amounts have been "transactioned" and "reversed", and no bank customers have lost any money.