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File 029680

Email Chain: Maldives Political Campaign and Alleged Financial Scam Warning (File 029680)

Email correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and Mohamed Waheed Hassan (President of Maldives) regarding political campaign organization and Epstein's warning about a potential financial fraud scheme involving a 4 billion dollar deposit proposal.

Summary

This email chain from January 2013 documents correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and Mohamed Waheed Hassan, President of Maldives, primarily focused on organizing Hassan's political campaign. Epstein provides advice on assembling a campaign team and recommends contacts including Lisa Svensson (Swedish ambassador) and others. Hassan describes a suspicious proposal from an anonymous funds manager offering to deposit 4 billion dollars with the Central Bank in exchange for government promissory notes through a special purpose vehicle. Epstein identifies this as a scam, explaining the typical fraud pattern where scammers use provided information to defraud other entities by falsely claiming government endorsement.

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