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Bean East Corporation

Hanif Hassan Moledina

ReportedNov 12, 2009
LocationGreat Falls, VA
Amount$16,000,000

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Company / entity
Bean East Corporation
Industry
Purported coffee bean supply contracts (personal borrowing)
How investors were recruited
Borrowed large sums at exceptionally high interest rates from friends and associates (about 26 lenders).
Pitch & red flags
Claimed to have "contracts to purchase coffee beans from suppliers in Columbia, South America, and a contract to supply beans to The Folgers Coffee Company"; none existed

Source

FBI official

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