Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-04-20 17:57:35 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0BA86C83E66C60A0FED593F6FCB16AB81CF1D1BE1274A5E67EADD4AC50CB8B99
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Original Note:
No airport was actually "sold." Emmanuel Nwude impersonated Paul Ogwuma, then Governor of Nigeria's Central Bank to convince Nelson Sakaguchi, the then director of Brazil's Banco Noroeste bank, to "invest" in a fictious nonexistent airport. Total deal was $242M. Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12393899/Fraudster-carried-one-biggest-scams-history-telling-bank-building-airport.html
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