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Fraudulent pitch register.
A sourced record of investment and infrastructure-financing pitches that have been the subject of a court conviction, a regulator's advisory, or documented investigative reporting. Every Scrutinex screening is matched against this register.
Entries are records of publicly documented cases, drawn entirely from the cited source in each row. Scrutinex makes no independent allegation about any person or organisation named here.
Confirmed means the cited source is a court conviction or a regulator's advisory. Reported means the cited source is fact-check or investigative reporting only — reporting is not a legal finding of wrongdoing, and a listing under that tier should be read as a prompt for verification, not as a conclusion.
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2 entries · 1 confirmed
Manuel Chang
ConfirmedIndividual · Mozambique / United StatesFormer Mozambique finance minister convicted in 2024 of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy in connection with the 'hidden loans' scandal involving over $2 billion in loans concealed from parliament and the IMF.
Source: Court conviction · US District Court, Eastern District of New York (US DOJ press release) · 2024-08-08 View source
McKinley Asia PNG Limited
ReportedOrganisation · Papua New GuineaSigned a memorandum of understanding with Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister for approximately $12 billion USD in infrastructure investment. PNGi Central, an anti-corruption watchdog, has raised serious questions about the company's capacity to deliver on this commitment. As of the source date, no finding of fraud has been made and this should be treated as an unresolved, flagged concern, not a proven case.
Reported only. This reflects published reporting and is not a legal finding of wrongdoing.
Source: Investigative journalism · PNGi Central View source
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