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By Emil TRIER

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Crime - Completed 2021

How did the young entrepreneur and media darling, Waleed Ahmed, known as "Norway's Mark Zuckerberg" end up being arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 11 years in prison?

Festivals
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New Nordic Films (Haugesund) 2021
Market screenings
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Crime, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • NORWAY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, NORWEGIAN
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Emil TRIER
    • Producer(s)
    • Thomas ROBSAM (Motlys), Nicolai MOLAND
    • Synopsis
    • Norwegian-Pakistani Waleed Ahmed (25) was a charismatic boy who took Norway and the international business world by storm, hailed by the media as an exceptionally promising entrepreneur, and brought into the Norwegian royal family - but it all turned out to be a bluff. How did Waleed end up being arrested by the FBI and convicted to a 11 years long sentence in a US high security prison? What makes a boy lie about almost everything, and did he manage to convince everybody he met?