{"id":3859,"date":"2019-06-07T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T09:43:33","slug":"man-arrested-impersonating-saudi-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/news\/man-arrested-impersonating-saudi-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man In The USA Has Been Arrested For Impersonating A Saudi Royal For Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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A US-based man who has been impersonating a Saudi prince for years has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.<\/p>\n
The man has embezzled millions in fake investments pretending to be Prince Khalid Bin Al-Saud<\/h3>\n\n\n
Prince Khalid Bin Al-Saud<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
He has been accused of scamming people using fake diplomatic credentials and hiring a group of bodyguards to follow him everywhere. He also lived in a luxurious Miami condo, drove a Ferrari with a forged diplomatic license plate, and courted investors and gift-givers.<\/p>\n
He would use this fake identity to persuade investors to put up millions of dollars for fake business opportunities.<\/p>\n
He has pleaded guilty to “identity theft and fraud”<\/h3>\n
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Florida man, Anthony Gignac,48, who posed as Saudi royal, jailed for 18 years for cheating people out of USD 8 million pic.twitter.com\/vZLSzqA2Id<\/a><\/p>\n
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