A tiny Canadian penny stock. A remote jungle in Borneo. Two hundred million ounces of gold that would have been the largest deposit ever found. And a geologist who fell from a helicopter four days before the whole thing unravelled.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Bre-X Minerals the greatest mining fraud in history, the salted core samples that fooled the world, and the death that has never been fully explained.

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Four hundred million dollars. A six thousand dollar shower curtain. A two million dollar birthday party with an ice sculpture that dispensed vodka. Dennis Kozlowski ran one of America's largest conglomerates and treated it as his personal bank account.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Tyco International and the systematic corporate looting that turned a celebrated CEO into a convicted felon.

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Germany's most celebrated fintech company. A DAX-listed giant worth twenty-four billion euros. Audited by Ernst and Young. And one point nine billion euros on its balance sheet that simply did not exist.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Wirecard how journalists and short sellers spent years raising alarms while regulators investigated the people asking questions instead of the company, and how the COO disappeared and has not been found since.

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He had a knighthood, a cricket tournament, and a Caribbean banking empire. Allen Stanford was one of the most celebrated financiers in the Americas until the SEC finally acted on warnings it had been receiving for over a decade, and the seven billion dollar fraud underneath it all was exposed.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Stanford Financial Group —the offshore Ponzi scheme that targeted Latin American savers and the regulatory failure that let it run for years.

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He wasn't a government official. He had no formal role, but Jho Low controlled everything and used a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund to throw celebrity birthday parties, buy superyachts, and fund Hollywood films while four and a half billion dollars meant for the Malaysian public disappeared.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance follows the 1MDB scandal from Kuala Lumpur to the Bahamas, through Goldman Sachs, and all the way to a Mediterranean superyacht.

We examine how grand corruption operates at a national scale and who helps it happen.

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The movie made almost five hundred million dollars. 

The victims received about twenty-five cents for 

every dollar stolen from them. Jordan Belfort is 

still on the speaking circuit.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes 

inside the real Stratton Oakmont — the Long Island 

boiler room that defrauded fifteen hundred ordinary 

Americans of over two hundred million dollars through 

pump and dump penny stock schemes. We follow the FBI 

investigation, the cooperation deal, the sentence, 

and the second career built on the back of the crime. 

And we ask the question the movie never did — 

what happened to the people he stole from?

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He arrived in America with two dollars and fifty cents. 

He invented a financial crime so perfectly replicable 

that over a century later it still carries his name. 

And he died in a charity hospital in Brazil with 

seventy-five dollars to his name.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes 

back to the original — Charles Ponzi, the international 

reply coupon scheme, and the summer of nineteen twenty 

when a line of investors stretched around the block 

in Boston to hand over their savings. We examine why 

his scheme still works in identical form a hundred 

years later and what it says about the oldest 

weakness in human financial behaviour.

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It was the largest accounting fraud in American history. 

And it was uncovered not by the SEC, not by Wall Street 

analysts, not by the auditors — but by a vice president 

of internal audit working alone at night after hours 

because she couldn't look the other way.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes 

inside WorldCom — how CEO Bernie Ebbers and CFO Scott 

Sullivan hid eleven billion dollars in fraudulent 

expenses, how seventeen thousand employees lost 

their jobs and their retirement savings, and how 

Cynthia Cooper's decision to keep digging changed 

American corporate law forever.

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It had survived the Napoleonic Wars, two World Wars, 

and the Great Depression. It took one twenty-eight 

year old trader with a secret account and a bad 

bet on the Kobe earthquake to bring it down in 

a single weekend.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes 

inside the collapse of Barings Bank and the story 

of Nick Leeson — how account eighty-eight-eight-eight 

hid losses for nearly three years, how the Kobe 

earthquake triggered the final spiral, and why 

Britain's oldest merchant bank was sold for 

a single pound. We examine the catastrophic 

oversight failures that made the whole thing possible.

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He testified before Congress. He donated hundreds of 

millions to charity. He was on the cover of Forbes. 

And he stole eight billion dollars from the customers 

who trusted him with their money.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes 

inside the collapse of FTX and the rise and fall of 

Sam Bankman-Fried — how the world's second-largest 

crypto exchange evaporated in seventy-two hours, 

why customer funds were being used to fund a 

competing trading firm, and what effective altruism 

has to do with one of the largest financial frauds 

in American history.

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