You were listening to assignment on the BBC World Service.

It's the early hours of June 9, 2020,

and the Dubai police stormed through the door of a Pentase apartment at the city's five-star Versace Palazzo Hotel.

They move from room to room, then up the stairs where they find an arrest Ramon Abbas.

To the world beyond these walls, Abbas in Nigeria in his late 30s is hush puppy, a social media

influencer with millions of followers.

But to the authorities, he's a wanted man, one of the world's most high profile money launderers.

This is my story. This is me, this is the hush puppy you have been

hearing about. The ghetto kid in me is at its peak and ready to explode and spread

around the globe. Told by me, Princess Abumair in Nigeria and me Paul Connolly in London.

This is a remarkable story of his double life and what happened when his public and private

personas clashed and burned. We chat Abbas's rise from small-time scam

artist in the slums of Legos to his rebirth as hush puppy. The dust bins were

for such, the copse basacchy, the soapholders were was

actually, the car park was filled with Rolls Royces and Bentley's and Ferraris and Lamborghinis. I'm like, wow.

We unveil his role in a global alliance of hackers and cyber criminals who stole tens of millions

through audacious heists and to attempt to scam a Premier League

Football Club out of a hundred million pounds.

We're not talking about a bit player here, we're talking about someone who was a mastermind.

Using testimony from newly available court documents, we revealed the

inner workings of a Bass's criminal enterprise down to the messages he exchanged with partners in crime.

Brother, tonight we are going to swap your account on a big contract.

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