Blogs and reviews
Filmtip: The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia
Fraudstorytelling | Weekly filmtips | 12 August 2021 Title: The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia Duration: 46 minutes Year: 2020 Producer: BBC Link: https://www.fraudstorytelling.com/movies/the-trees-that-bleed-how-rosewood-is-smuggled-from-senegal-into-gambia/ Tagging: #environmentalcrime, #authorities, #investigativejournalism The rosewood tree is one of the most trafficked species on earth. When it’s cut it bleeds a blood-red sap. Having exhausted stocks elsewhere, Chinese traders have turned…
Eva Dekkers
Filmtip: To Catch a Trader
Fraudstorytelling | Weekly filmtips | 7 August 2021 Title: To Catch a Trader Duration: 53 minutes Year: 2014 Producer: Frontline Link: https://www.fraudstorytelling.com/movies/to-catch-a-trader/ Tagging: #insidertrading, #financialmarkets Correspondent Martin Smith goes inside the government’s ongoing, seven-year crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively-obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps of other traders, and interviews with both Wall Street…
Filmtip: Diplomats for Sale
Fraudstorytelling | Weekly filmtips | 29 July 2021 Title: Diplomats for Sale Duration: 53 minutes Year: 2019 Producer: Al Jazeera Link: Diplomats for Sale – Fraudstorytelling Tagging: #businessethics, #government How much would you pay for diplomatic immunity? The trade in Caribbean diplomatic passports has become a magnet for wealthy foreigners, corrupt businessmen and criminals from around the world. Al Jazeera exposes…
Filmtip: The Spy in Your Phone
Fraudstorytelling | Weekly filmtips | 23 July 2021 Title: The Spy in Your Phone Duration: 47 minutes Year: 2021 Producer: Al Jazeera Link: https://www.fraudstorytelling.com/movies/the-spy-in-your-phone/ Tagging: #espionage, #cybercrime, #ITindustry In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the…
Filmtip: Murdoch’s Scandal
Fraudstorytelling | Weekly filmtips | 15 July 2021 Title: Murdoch’s Scandal Duration: 53 minutes Year: 2012 Producer: Frontline Link: https: https://www.fraudstorytelling.com/movies/murdochs-scandal/ Tagging: #bribery, #corruption, #entertainmentindustry Over half a century Rupert Murdoch’s business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world’s most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat — not from outside…
Filmtip: Fakes in the art world – The mystery conman
Fraudstorytelling | Weekly filmtips | 8 July 2021 Title: Fakes in the art world – The mystery conman Duration: 42 minutes Year: 2017 Producer: Deutsche Welle Link: https://www.fraudstorytelling.com/movies/fakes-in-the-art-world-the-mystery-conman/ Tagging: #businessethics, #counterfeit In the art world forgeries are not uncommon. Talented fraudsters have been playing the art market and ripping off collectors for years. This documentary dives into the quest of…