Corruption, unscrupulousness, megalomania: in our new podcast we report on the most spectacular criminal cases in the German economy. Accompany the Handelsblatt investigative team into the abyss of high finance and the dirty world of big money.
For at least ten years, banks and their best customers used the tricky deals from the tax coffers. The behavior was exposed as a “Cum Ex-Scandal”.
Business is complicated, the principle is simple. A capital gains tax paid only once was reimbursed several times. Although the loophole in tax law had also been known to politicians since 2002 at the latest, it took the legislature until 2012 to close it.
The estimated damage is twelve billion euros. In a committee of inquiry, the German Bundestag dealt with hair-raising details for months. In the final report, however, it was agreed that politicians had done nothing wrong.
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The Handelsblatt has been showing the opposite for years. We introduce the accountants, bankers and billionaires who got rich at the common expense. We describe the failure of the regulators to make all of this happen. And we accompany the public prosecutor’s office in the race against time to bring at least the biggest tax evaders to justice. In the Handelsblatt Crime podcast, we present the highlights of the affair.
Handelsblatt Crime appears every 14 days and can be heard wherever there are podcasts.