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How a CEO’s Faked Results Led to a $300 Million Wipeout

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, we look at the fakery that led to the collapse of eFishery and what it can tell us about the risks of investing in Indonesia

Gibran Huzaifah in 2022.Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg

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In late 2018, five years after launching fish-feeding company eFishery, Gibran Huzaifah found himself all out of cash. To save his business, the CEO started plugging fake numbers into financial reports. The brighter picture drew hundreds of millions of investor dollars. But his house of cards was doomed to collapse.