Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-04-20 21:44:13 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4C8B6E2E842A1FCE3644DE4754A632E893504E6330DCBCF1DB44BC31DF5872EC
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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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