Financial fraud
Take Five’s Scam Academy | Module 1: Email Scam
| Take Five | Watch Carol Vorderman, Rufus Hound and Donna Air go back to school as Take Five inducts them into Scam Academy. Learn top tips for spotting a scam email – it might be easy for fraudsters to…
- 2017
- Financial fraud
The Oligarchs
| Al Jazeera | Aljazeera’s investigative unit unravels a high-stakes international plot by powerful Eastern European oligarchs to make millions of dollars off a crooked deal. According to a Ukrainian analyst, “It sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses. You…
- 2018
- Financial fraud
BR Shetty and the Missing Millions
| Al Jazeera | This is a story of a financial scandal, of fortunes won and lost and political collusion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that goes right to the heart of Emirati business and politics. At the centre…
Bank of England investigated for fraud
| Financial Times | The Bank of England is the focus of a criminal investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent, and UK news editor Michael Stott discuss the allegations and what they could mean…
- 2015
- Financial fraud
Fraud: how I was scammed and you could be too
| Financial Times | Authorised push payment frauds, where people are tricked into transferring money into criminal-controlled accounts, are growing fast, with £354mn stolen last year. FT journalist and fraud victim Joe Sinclair talks to readers about how they’ve been…
- 2019
- Financial fraud
Greensill, Gupta and Cameron: what went wrong
| Financial Times | The story of Greensill Capital’s rise and fall has everything: investment banks, opaque finance, private jets, trophy mansions and the biggest British lobbying scandal in a generation, involving former prime minister David Cameron. The Financial Times…
When Greed Goes Too Far – The Worldcom Fraud
| ColdFusion | WorldCom was a telecommunications company that went bankrupt in 2002 following a massive accounting fraud. WorldCom remains the biggest accounting scandal in U.S. history as well as one of the largest bankruptcies.
- 2021
- Financial fraud
The Wirecard Fraud – How One Man Fooled all of Germany
| ColdFusion | The heavily requested video on the wirecard scandal. How can $2 billion just go missing? This story raises many questions about the regulatory bodies we all trust to keep the business financial system in line.
- 2020
- Financial fraud
The story of a German conman
| DW Documentary | 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…
- 2020
- Financial fraud
De omstreden vrienden van Donald Trump lll: De miljardenfraude
| BNN VARA | Gaat Donald Trump ten onder door zijn dubieuze banden met de voormalige Sovjet-Unie? Het net rond de president lijkt zich te sluiten. Speciaal aanklager Robert Mueller, die onderzoekt of Trump heeft samengespannen met Rusland om de…