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White-Collar Swindlers: The Crypto Trap and Wirecard Scandal
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White-Collar Swindlers: The Crypto Trap and Wirecard Scandal

28 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Two of the biggest corporate fraud cases of recent years get taken apart by financial experts and investigators. Sam Bankman-Fried built FTX into one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges before it collapsed, landing him on trial for fraud, money laundering, and market manipulation. Jan Marsalek, the operations chief behind German payment processor Wirecard, vanished before the company's 1.9-billion-euro accounting hole became public, and remains a fugitive while former colleagues face prosecution in his place. The film uses interviews with analysts and white-collar crime specialists to lay out how both men built credibility, exploited shell companies and mailbox addresses, and kept regulators and auditors at bay for years despite warning signs. Rather than treating these as isolated scandals, the documentary treats them as case studies in a recognizable playbook: charisma, complexity, and paperwork designed to exhaust anyone trying to check it. It closes on the unresolved part of the story, Marsalek still missing and the money's final destination still unclear.