Another story on the subject: "Why invent anecdotes when there is real life?"

Beginning of the 90s. of Arkhangelsk. Two good businessmen from the Netherlands came to the city. They went to the Administration of the region, to "Exportles", met with local entrepreneurs, offered to buy forest circles directly, without intermediaries, with millions of cubic meters. Prices were much higher than market prices. They promised counter delivery of goods at low wholesale prices.
Dear guests were carried by expensive restaurants, nightclubs, saunas with models, brought to Moscow and Peter, and Samara, arranged a banquet-marathon for several weeks (!), showed them the breadth of Russian nature... Then they were stolen in a hotel, and local entrepreneurs helped them with money, sent them on a first-class plane to Amsterdam... Only after some time it became clear that these Dutch "businessmen" are actually two small scammers, and, 20 years of force, they just came to Russia, to walk on a hole, which they managed in the highest degree, and also gave them money with them...
The plot is real, although the story is as old as the world, the same Cat in Boots, suddenly turned into the Marquis of Karabas.
Or, the same story as in the movie "Catch Me If You Can".
But history teaches only what it teaches nothing: only today I read in the news that in Portugal:
Former president’s adviser, former World Bank adviser, UN financial researcher and American university teacher Artur Baptista da Silva earned himself last year the fame of a media hero with his attacks on austerity measures in Portugal. He received solid fees for his articles and performances, he was invited to various forums...
The only problem is that this respectable 61-year-old man in glasses did not work on any of the above posts. It turns out that he served a prison sentence fraudulent with fake documents.”

The curtains :)