
Killers, Inc.
Gherman Gorbuntsov built a career laundering money for wealthy Russian clients, earning the nickname "The Black Banker" before a falling out with his partners sent him first to Moldova and then to London. In 2012 a hitman tried to kill him there, and the attempt survives on camera along with Gorbuntsov's own account of the months leading up to it. Reporters from the Organized Crime and Corruption Project spend two years tracing the shooter back through a network allegedly run by Ion Druta, an arms trafficker suspected of supplying assassins for hire to businessmen and officials with grudges to settle. The trail runs through Russian Railways, the country's largest state-owned company, and toward figures close to the Kremlin. Druta himself sits for an interview and denies everything, a claim the film sets against news footage, law enforcement interviews, and a body count that keeps growing. The result is less a single case than a map of how Russian money, politics, and contract violence intersect, built from the reporting rather than reenactment.