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Mafias and Banks

Mafias and Banks

★ 6.5/10•2023•B-15•Documentary•War & Politics
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How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.

StatusEnded
LanguageFR
First Air DateOct 8, 2023

Episodes

E158m

The Time of Pioneers

It was in New York, the temple of finance, that the mafia invented its own banking system. During the Great Depression, the underworld took up usury and laundered its money through gambling, while the wealthy built the new architecture of tax havens. In the 1950s, global finance was governed by the Bretton Woods system. But criminals and financiers were about to find the cracks in this framework. The New York mafia invested in the Caribbean. The bankers, for their part, invented new tools for the hidden circulation of money. It was the birth of white-collar crime, of which the Italian tax expert Michele Sindona, banker to Cosa Nostra and the Vatican, was one of the most terrifying models.

Oct 8, 2023

E260m

Follow the Money

The 1980s were the decade of the Wall Street wolves and the meteoric rise of cocaine and heroin trafficking. For criminal organizations, cartels, mafias and the Yakuza, the need for money laundering was immense, and some banks opened their arms to them. To combat this scourge, an Italian magistrate, Giovanni Falcone, invented a method: follow the money. But the irresistible liberalization of finance shattered all banking regulations. A race against time begins.

Oct 8, 2023

E360m

Crime Without Limits

The end of the Cold War raised hopes of a new world. But in the face of the new world order, the great nations are making the docile choice of globalization. Russia and China, intent on preserving their spheres of influence to counter the all-powerful United States, will have to develop unprecedented alliance strategies. For the mafias, new territories and new markets are opening up. With so many financial transactions taking place every millisecond, dirty money is more untraceable than ever. Banks, the arteries of money circulation, are becoming the butlers of occult finance. From Moscow to Vancouver, from Beijing to Beirut, it's time for organised white-collar crime.

Oct 8, 2023

Actors

Christophe Bouquet

Christophe Bouquet

Self - Narrator (voice)

Mathieu Buscatto

Mathieu Buscatto

Additional Voice (voice)

Frédéric Cerdal

Frédéric Cerdal

Additional Voice (voice)

Brigitte Dingé

Additional Voice (voice)

Marie-Ève Dufresne

Marie-Ève Dufresne

Additional Voice (voice)

Jean-Marie Fonbonne

Jean-Marie Fonbonne

Additional Voice (voice)

Alice Gueguen

Additional Voice (voice)

Daniel Lafourcade

Daniel Lafourcade

Additional Voice (voice)

Laurent Lederer

Additional Voice (voice)

Marc Perez

Additional Voice (voice)

Stéphane Roux

Stéphane Roux

Additional Voice (voice)

Gérard Rouzet

Additional Voice (voice)

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