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Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
Frequency: 1 episode/46d. Total Eps: 26
In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a €2 billion fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the end of the story. But for reporter Sam Jones, it was just the beginning.
This season on Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, Jones investigates Wirecard’s chief operating officer, who vanished just as Wirecard collapsed. And turned out to also be a Russian spy.
From an Ibizan sting operation to an attempted takeover of the Austrian intelligence service, his reporting spirals into a world of warlords, espionage, and disinformation.
All in an attempt to answer one question: Who is the real Jan Marsalek? And what does his secret life reveal about the powerful forces he serves?
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Episode 1 - Murder Brokers
Season 2 · Episode 1
mardi 5 décembre 2023 • Duration 29:45
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot.
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Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
Season 2
mardi 21 novembre 2023 • Duration 02:55
Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war between democracies and dictatorships.
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Episode 8: Inside Porn's Star Chamber
Season 1 · Episode 8
mardi 19 juillet 2022 • Duration 40:47
In the season finale, Alex and Patricia discover how Visa and MasterCard became the reluctant rulers of porn. And they figure out what being ruled by credit card companies means for the porn industry today.
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Episode 7: Porn Meets OnlyFans
Season 1 · Episode 7
mardi 12 juillet 2022 • Duration 39:59
Alex and Patricia track down the family behind OnlyFans, the site that has transformed online porn by shifting power back to performers. But there is a whole other side to the OnlyFans story.
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Episode 6: Knocking on the Door of a Porn Empire
Season 1 · Episode 6
mardi 5 juillet 2022 • Duration 41:28
One of the biggest porn companies in the world was forced to radically change its practices. But another porn giant changed almost nothing.
Patricia travels to the company's Prague headquarters to understand why.
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Episode 5: The Billionaire Who Took Down Porn
Season 1 · Episode 5
mardi 28 juin 2022 • Duration 38:15
A billionaire hedge fund manager reads a scathing column about a popular porn site. He sends an angry text to the CEO of MasterCard. Almost overnight, the biggest porn company in the world changes dramatically.
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Episode 4: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie
Season 1 · Episode 4
mardi 21 juin 2022 • Duration 39:43
How is it legal for porn sites to host millions of videos uploaded by users? The answer is in the story of an Ohio family in the early 1990s.
In this episode: a family IT business, an FBI raid and a court case that set the precedent for porn – and for tech giants like Facebook and Twitter.
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Episode 3: Mr. Goldman, Mr. Sex
Season 1 · Episode 3
mardi 14 juin 2022 • Duration 32:33
When Fabian Thylmann ran into trouble with the law, a former Goldman Sachs banker swooped in to buy his porn sites. But nobody knew who he was. He managed to keep his identity a secret for years --- until Patricia rumbled his game.
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Episode 2: The Darth Vader of Porn
Season 1 · Episode 2
mardi 7 juin 2022 • Duration 32:59
A decade ago, a computer programmer named Fabian Thylmann began to build one of the biggest porn empires in the world.
How did Fabian do it? He was good with money in a business that was starved of finance. He convinced Wall Street to bankroll his vision to take control of the industry.
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Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet
Season 1 · Episode 1
lundi 6 juin 2022 • Duration 32:24
Stoya is a porn star who saw first-hand how a firehose of free porn online transformed the adult industry.
She sends hosts Alex Barker and Patricia Nilsson a quest: Find out who is in charge, and get to the bottom of how the business of porn really works.
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