Mafias & Banks - Season 1

Mafias & Banks - Season 1

Season 1

Mafias and Banks: two opposite worlds. They share the same taste for luxury, risk, and easy money yet they despise and fear each other and both have connections to the government.

For a long time, criminals robbed banks, ripping them open and emptying their safes. It wasn't until the end of the Second World War that the mafias realized just how much profit they could make from banking institutions, and later from finance.

Network
Episodes3
DatesNov 26, 2023 - Nov 26, 2023

Episodes

The Era of Pioneers
Season 1Episode 160 min

The Era of Pioneers

The meeting between the world of mafias and the world of finance is tentative and almost accidental. But when drug trafficking exploded and the mafias became richer than ever before, they found intermediaries in the banking world. The result was a veritable cataclysm: the biggest banking collapse on record.

Nov 26, 2023
Follow the Money
Season 1Episode 260 min

Follow the Money

For criminal organizations, money became a problem: there was too much of it. The 1980s saw the development of modern money-laundering techniques. In the background, the Cold War provided protection for the Panamanian dictator and the Mafia bank alike. For the first time, governments tried to follow the money to crush criminal organizations. But the Reagan and Thatcher years were those of deregulation, and the opportunities for money laundering exploded.

Nov 26, 2023
Crime Without Limits
Season 1Episode 360 min

Crime Without Limits

In an instant, all borders fell: the Russian mafia emerged, Hong Kong returned to the Chinese fold. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world became one, and capitalism triumphed. In the flood of global transactions, it's impossible to keep track of the money. And the banks, which are supposed to monitor the system, are shameless accomplices to the mafias.

Nov 26, 2023

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