An insider's guide to identifying fraudsters | International Adviser
Their keynote is ostentation, be it flashy suits or gaudy gewgaws At a business meeting in 2018, Anthony Gignac ate a pork pie. Ordinarily, this would have been utterly unremarkable, but for Gignac it would bring down a near 20-year deception that saw him pose as a Saudi prince to defraud high net worth individuals to the tune of £6.3m ($8.3m, €6.9m). The Prince’s pork penchant was noticed by Jeffrey Soffer, a billionaire financier who was meeting with Gignac to discuss buying a 30% stake in the famed Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach for £339m. And while it might stretch the bou...
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