Short (<15 minutes)
Why Amazon Has So Many Counterfeit Goods
| CNBC | Seizures of counterfeit products at U.S. borders have increased 10-fold over the past two decades as e-commerce sales have boomed. The total value of seized goods – if they had been real – reached nearly $1.4 billion…
- 2020
- Counterfeit
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana
| The Guardian | Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country’s small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life…
- 2013
- Business ethics
The Money Stone: Underground with a child gold miner in Ghana
| BBC | Alongside the vast gold fields of Ghana are thousands of illegal mines or galamsey, where unskilled miners dream of hitting the big time. These mines rely mainly on children who abandon an education in an attempt to…
- 2020
- Business ethics
Bulgarenfraude
| KRO Brandpunt | Staatssecretaris Weekers: systeem uitkering toeslagen op de schop Staatssecretaris Weekers van financiën gaat de Tweede Kamer voorstellen om de manier waarop in Nederland toeslagen worden toegekend, drastisch te veranderen. Aanleiding is een reportage van KRO Brandpunt…
- 2013
- Business ethics
Brandpunt – Een lesje faillissementsfraude
| KRO NCRV | Fraude-expert en voormalig hoogleraar Cees Schaap legt aan Sven Kockelmann uit hoe faillissementsfraude vaak gepleegd wordt. Buitenlandse rechtspersonen spelen vaak een hoofdrol. De curator en schuldeisers hebben het nakijken.
- 2013
- Financial fraud, Tax evasion
Wie is de mol? Deel II
| BNN VARA | ICT-bedrijf Ordina plaatst ‘mollen’ op strategische posities bij potentiële opdrachtgevers om aanbestedingen naar haar hand te zetten. Ordina-managers krijgen de opdracht om hoge ambtenaren van diverse ministeries en andere overheidsinstanties te verleiden, in te pakken en…
- 2015
- Corruption, Espionage
The Secret Bribes of Big Tobacco
| BBC | A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of bribery at one of the UK’s biggest companies. Panorama found British American Tobacco (BAT) illegally paid politicians and civil servants in countries in East Africa. The payments were revealed when…
- 2015
- Bribery
Is Crowd1 running a pyramid scheme? – How does a pyramid scheme work?
| BBC | Crowd1 presents itself as a high-tech crowd marketing business. It promises significant returns to its members. To start making money with Crowd1, a person needs to buy an ‘education package’ directly from the company. So is Crowd1…
- 2020
- Pyramid scheme
Unmasking the Pyramid Kings: Crowd1 scam targets
| BBC | The best scams always come in disguise. And Crowd1 is the most audacious scam we’ve ever seen. It looks like a high-tech marketing business that’s making a ton of money for people across Africa. All you need…
- 2020
- Pyramid scheme
Wirecard and the missing €1.9bn: my story
| © The Financial Times Limited 2021 | Surveillance, spear phishing and missing billions. ‘At times I thought I was going crazy.’ Dan McCrum explains the twists and turns behind the massive fraud.
- 2020
- Financial fraud