Nigeria Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, arrested last month for alleged Internet fraud, has secured the service of a top criminal defence attorney in Chicago.

LagosspyNG gathered that Abbas has engaged Gal Pissetzky, a senior partner at Chicago law firm Pissetzky & Berliner, to help extricate him from multi-million dollar fraud charges levelled against him by American authorities.

Mr Abbas, an Instagram sensation widely known as Hushpuppi, was arrested alongside dozens of his alleged co-conspirators following an overnight raid of his apartments in Dubai on June 10. Emirati police and prosecutors said about N16 billion was found in cash out of an estimated N168 billion online scams linked to the syndicate.