Popular Nigerian journalist Deji Faremi has claimed that
suspected fraudster, Ramon Abbas popularly known as Ray
Hushpuppi scammed a Serie A club two years ago.
In 2018, an Italian newspaper Il Tempo reported that Serie A
giants, Lazio were tricked into paying the final installment of the
deal they struck for Dutch defender Stefan de Vrij from Feyenoord
to the wrong bank account.
De Vrij, 26, signed for Lazio from Feyenoord in 2014 having
impressed at that summer’s World Cup, penning a four-year
contract.
The report claims that hackers with knowledge of the deal sent
Lazio an email that appeared to be from Feyenoord asking for the
€2m payment to the bank account details supplied.
Lazio then paid that money to the account, but the Eredivisie
champions never received the cash and claim that they have no
knowledge of the email.
Il Tempo claimed that the prosecutor that looked into the case
tracked down the money to a Dutch bank account – but it isn’t
Feyenoord’s.
According to Deji, the scam that Lazio fell for in 2018 when it
paid the final €2 million instalment of Stefan De Vrij transfer fee
into an account pretending to be Feyenoord’s was masterminded
by Hushpuppi who is now facing a statutory maximum sentence of
20 years in a US federal prison after being extradited from Dubai
to the United States.



https://www.withinnigeria.com/2020/07/05/hushpuppi-scammed-a-serie-a-team-of-e2-million-deji-faremi-says/