LOS ANGELES (Variety.com): Jordan Belfort, the pump-and-dump scammer immortalised in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, said in a lawsuit Thursday that he was victimised by a far grander scam perpetrated by the film's producers.
Belfort filed a US$300mil (RM1.2bil) fraud lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Red Granite Pictures and its CEO, Riza Aziz, saying he had no idea they financed the film with millions of dollars stolen from the Malaysian government.
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