Movie or Documentary
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…
The Multilevel Marketing Cults: Lies, Pyramid Schemes, and the Pursuit of Financial Freedom
| James Jani | These companies follow a Multi-Level Marketing model, that means they often do not sell their products/services via retailers, but through a workforce of people sometimes called their “distributors”. This strategy is also often labelled as Network…
Waste Management $1.8 Billion Fraud Story
| deepEND | Waste Management FBI Fraud Story When we hear the term waste management, what comes to mind is the truck that picks up garbage, and that’s all. However, there’s more to that. Why do you think Bill Gates…
Illegal Logging: The Problem
| European Forest Institute | Trees are vital to our planet, they are the natural protectors of our climate. As the largest plants in the world, they provide us with oxygen, store carbon, stabilize the soil, and give life to…
- 2012
- Environmental Crime
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…
Enron – The Biggest Fraud in History
| ColdFusion| In this video, ColdFusion will take you into the story of one of the biggest frauds in history, Enron, where over 60 billion dollars were scammed. The Enron scandal was a series of events that culminated in the…
- 2019
- Business ethics, Financial fraud, Scam
The story of a German Conman
| DW | It was one of the biggest white-collar scams in German history. In the 1990s, Manfred Schmider and his company FlowTex took investors for more than two billion euros. Today, the conman himself can’t believe how easy it…
- 2020
- Financial fraud, Scam