International cyber abundant and social networks, who planned to wash more than $ 300 million, this week arrested in his house in Dubai in June 2020 and extradited in the USA, where he will be serve the sentence.
Abbas and his accomplices used the compromise of business e-mail (BEC) to steal money from several companies around the world, as well as from private individuals and even with an unnamed football club of the English Premier League.
Abbas was an active user of social networks with 2.3 million subscribers. He regularly published photos of his luxurious lifestyle – flights on a private plane, expensive cars, thick packs of money, etc.
Abbas conducted numerous cybercrower campaigns. So, during several campaigns in 2019, he, along with his partner, washed about $ 14.7 million stolen from the bank in Malta. They also conducted a scam against the team of the English Premier League and one British company.
Abbas is also involved in the theft of more than $ 990 thousand in the New York Law Firm in 2019, and also pleaded guilty in conspiracy to deceive the Catari citizen, who was looking for a loan of $ 15 million for the construction of the school.
Abbas was arrested by the federal authorities for conspiracy to launder more than $ 300 million. According to the prosecutor’s office, the laundering process was carefully planned, which shows the “seriousness of his criminal activity.”
Abbas found himself guilty of the only charge of conspiracy to launder money in April 2021. He is also obliged to return the money stolen from the New York Law Firm, as well as about $ 810 thousand people from Qatar.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Abbas, perhaps, provided his services to launder money to the government of North Korea, which is accused of the USA for hacking a bank in Malta in 2019. The amount stolen by North Korean hackers coincides with the amount that appears in the Abbas.