Mafias and Banks

In the 1930s, the New York mafia invented its own banking system and invested in the Caribbean as a tax haven. Bankers are inventing new tools for the hidden circulation of money. This is the birth of white-collar crime.

The decade of the 1980s was that of the wolves of Wall Street and the meteoric rise in cocaine and heroin trafficking. For criminal organizations, cartels, mafias and yakuzas, the money laundering needs are immense and certain banks open their arms to them. A race against time begins.

With the end of the Cold War, new globalized markets opened up for the mafias and dirty money was more untraceable than ever. Banks are becoming butlers of occult finance. From Moscow to Geneva, from the Vatican to Beijing, these films tell how crime will become a commodity and the world of crime a leading economic player.