He made this known yesterday night that Hushpuppi had not been released as being speculated

Pissetzky, a Chicago lawyer, also noted that he was still his lawyer.

“He has not been released and I am still his lawyer. He is on his way to California. Not everything you see on court documents is accurate.

“Just because the jail record says ‘released’ does not mean he has been released. He is being transferred to California,” he told our correspondent on the phone.

He was initially taken to a Chicago court, where he was denied bail, before the case was transferred to California.

The matter is being handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which took over the case from the Dubai Police.

It will be recalled that the news about the released of Ramon Olorunwa popularly known as Hushpuppi has been trending on various social media pages since yesterday but the lawyer has now debunked the news.