Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-04-21 08:38:34 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DC17E852AF89FEC3E2244DAD094930C3C59451C79D22AB39D068D50230045A3F
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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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