Government
Lupin
| Netflix | Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
The Laundromat
| Netflix | When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
- 2019
- Fake, Corruption, Financial fraud, Tax evasion, Bribery
Deepfake Videos Are Getting Terrifyingly Real
| PBS | Deepfakes are an increasingly popular editing technique that uses artificial intelligence to alter faces and voices in videos. Part of the name comes from the AI used to create them, deep learning. Similar technology has been used…
- 2019
- Fake
The dangers of deepfakes
| DW | “Don’t believe everything you see or hear on the Internet”. Today, we present to you an issue that has been very popular these past few years. Deepfake isn’t new, but it’s gotten more attention since the release…
- 2022
- Fake
How London became the dirty money capital of the world
| Financial Times | Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say the ‘London laundromat’ cleans dirty money from Russia and across the globe. The FT…
How Malaysia’s Banking Scandal Led To the Death of an Auditor
| VICE | The assassination of Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Berhad (BBMB) senior auditor Jalil Ibrahim shook the world. Prior to 1MDB, one of Malaysia’s biggest financial scandals was the Bank Bumiputra scandal. An elaborate scheme of corruption, false accounting, and…
- 2021
- Corruption, Financial crisis
South Seas Bubble of 1720: the First Major Manipulation of Financial Markets
| Video Economist| The first major manipulation of financial markets. Today we look at the South Seas bubble of 1720. The South Sea Company was a British investment company that collapsed in 1720 due to a speculative bubble, the South…
From spy to president: The rise of Vladimir Putin
| VOX | In this 2017 documentary Vox presents Vladimir Putin. He has been in power in Russia since the late 90s, after taking over from Boris Yeltsin. During this time, he made Russia an authoritarian and militaristic society. Before…
How Stealing and Selling Children Became a Business in South Sudan
| VICE | South Sudan’s civil war flooded the nation with weapons, those weapons are now used for child abduction.
VW and dieselgate – What really happened
| DW Documentary | It’s a case involving one of the worst examples of fraud in the history of German industry. Who knew about the manipulation of VW’s diesel emissions, and just as importantly – when? In September 2015 US…
- 2022
- Business ethics