“How I Lost Money by Investing in a Shady Company: The Story of Kaya Yanar”

A buddy approached him and asked if Kaya could lend money to a company he was advising. The company wants to build a prototype for a blow molding machine. “You do not have to do anything. Just give money and get security for it,” said friend with financial expertise promised him. The “What are you looking at?!” star was finally convinced and invested.

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“But what happened? This shitty company went bankrupt,” reports the 45-year-old. But he now has this blow molding machine – with which he can produce 10,000 plastic bottles a day – in a warehouse. Even if he has to laugh himself while telling the story, he emphasizes: “It’s not funny at all. I lost a lot of money.”