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Great Frauds in History... Crown Corporation’s fake firm

Bermuda-registered company Crown Corporation International was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2003. It claimed that it would use cash raised from investors, which would be held in a Brazilian bank account, to buy struggling companies cheaply, turning them

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