File 029534

Email Chain: Mohamed Waheed Hassan Seeks Epstein's Advice on Fraudulent Investment Scheme (File 029534)

Email correspondence between Mohamed Waheed Hassan (President of Maldives) and Jeffrey Epstein regarding a suspicious advance-fee fraud scheme involving a 4 billion dollar deposit offer, with Epstein advising caution and discussing contacts in international diplomatic circles.

Summary

This email chain from January 2013 documents Mohamed Waheed Hassan, President of Maldives, seeking Jeffrey Epstein's counsel on a suspicious offer from an anonymous funds manager to deposit 4 billion dollars in the Maldives Central Bank in exchange for government promissory notes and upfront fees. Hassan expresses discomfort with the arrangement, noting the mysterious nature of the intermediaries and their insistence on meetings in Bangkok. Epstein responds by warning Hassan about advance-fee fraud operations, suggesting the offer is fraudulent, and recommending Hassan document the scheme to expose it. The broader email thread also discusses Hassan's presidential campaign efforts, mentions of international contacts including Swedish ambassador Lisa Svensson and Norwegian politician Thorbjorn Jagland, and fundraising efforts involving World Economic Forum and Clinton Foundation connections.

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From: Mohamed Waheed [
Sent: 1/27/2013 4:33:18 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Thank you. You are my savior. I will do exactly what you said.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 27, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
this from a fraud web site, your mimister will get upset that you dont want to at least try, what do we have to
lose , always the pitch. THe following from the fraud site. --The essential fact in all advance-fee fraud
operations is that the promised money transfer never happens—because the money does not exist. The
perpetrators rely on the fact that, by the time the victim realizes this (often only after being confronted by a third
party who has noticed the transactions or conversation and recognized the scam), the victim may have sent
thousands of dollars of their own money, and sometimes thousands or millions more that has been borrowed or
stolen, to the scammer via an untraceable and/or irreversible means such as wire transfer.f131 Stay
away, however if you want to embarass your possible opponent , you might set it up so that he looks like a
fool, ask for amemo of why he thinks you should agree, have it include as many detials as possible, so that
when you prove its a fraud„ you will make him look very silly as opposed to his saying , you missed an
opportunity, anyway„ glad you are well
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Mohamed Waheed Hassan > wrote:
Jeffrey,
Need your advice.
My finance minister is telling me that he has an anonymous funds manager who is willing to deposit 4 billion
dollars in Maldives and that they are willing to lend a percentage of that in exchange for government
promissory notes. The 4 billion would be deposited in the Central Bank. But they want us to set up a special
purpose vehicle, a construction company fully owned by the government to receive the loan. Such a company
can only be set up under a presidential decree.
I am also told that the funds manager would be charging Maldives upfront a certain percentage of the amount
lent.
I don't feel I have enough information on this. I don't know who is this funds manager. They always want the
finance minister to meet them in Bangkok or some place outside. Why would anyone want to deposit such a
large amount here when we don't have a credit rating and public debt is so high. I feel very uncomfortable
about this.
What do you think I should do. I am very uncomfortable. In addition to the finance minister, a leading
politician and leader of the coalition parliamentary group is behind it. He could be my leading contender for
presidency.
Does this sound all ridiculous to you. I have a strange feeling about this whole thing.
Best regards
Waheed
Sent from President's iPad
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On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
as chairman of the council of europe , he is really mr human rights, Im sure that if he can be of help, he will
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:27 AM, wrote:
I remember meeting Jagland at your place when I came with Sultan.
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Sent: 18 January, 2013 2:40 AM
To: Mohamed Waheed Hassan
Subject: Re:
also be advised that thorbjorn jagland is a great friend.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Mohamed Waheed Hassan `MillMilvrote:
Hi,
Would be great if Lisa could visit us. She sounds like the right person to help us get organized.
Maldives just got elected Vice President of International Renewable Energy Agency. We are also Vice Chair
of the UN Human Rights Council. Not too bad considering we had so much bad coverage this year
internationally.
Best regards,
Waheed
Sent from President's iPad
On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
my friend in sweden, lisa svensson, would be perfect as your right hand orgainzing your team„ she has
diplomaitc experieince and is currently amabssador to the oceans for sweden
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mohammed Waheed Hassan ______________________________'wrote:
Hi,
The campaign team is starting to come together. We are continuing discussions with Jim and tomorrow
we will meet him face to face on skype. We will brief him on the situation here so that he will be able to
advice us more effectively. Already he has sent some very useful suggestions and we are working on them.
Getting the right people to head various aspects on the campaign is difficult here but we should be able to
pull the team together shortly.
We will need some more help from Ian and Rory because we are still weak on international
communication. Some old negative stuff keeps coming up in the Guardian newspaper in England. But most
of the international media is not paying much attention to Maldives right now.
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I have asked Rory to help find a full time communications guy to stay here for about a year to work with
me. He doesn't have to be an expert, just a good graduate student would do. Some really positive stuff is
also happening now and we need the world to know about them.
World Energy Forum and CGI guys are here. I am meeting Clinton people in a few minutes.
I have some funding now but will ask all friends to help raise more later when things start happening in full
swing. Election is now scheduled to early September.
Hope all is well and look forward to seeing you here in the not too distant future.
Warm regards,
Waheed
On Jan 9, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
how is it shaping up? what are the biggest hurdles.
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return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
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Jeffrey Epstein
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