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
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams – Murder Docudrama 1986
| BBC | A doctor’s diploma from a reputable school does not guarantee that he or she will provide quality care, but it is a good starting point. With this documentary, BBC wants to take you back in time to…
- 1986
- Corruption, Integrity, Financial fraud
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
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.
How Sergei Magnitsky Uncovered a $230 Million Tax Fraud
| VICE News | Sergei Magnitsky was a tax advisor tasked with investigating an audacious crime of fraud in Russia. What he discovered went all the way to the highest levels of the Kremlin and implicated police and officials in…
- 2021
- Financial fraud, Corruption