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Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
by Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
Category
Business
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Series
Language
English
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 ...
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Exceptional
sparky.tx•3/21/2026
Very well researched and presented as a narrative
Season 1
alittlechaos•11/3/2025
Brilliantly reported
Compelling and thoughtful
04Heaven Slake•8/18/2025
Really fascinating and detailed. Like a le Carre or Graham Greene novel. Except it’s all true and real and not fictional. Brilliant.
Very very slow
Constant Reader Jr.•8/4/2025
The type of documentary that includes the journalist asking “where should we sit?” Agonizingly slow and dragged out, yet a fascinating story beneath it all. Worth listening to, but barely.
Lifestyles of the Rich & Infamous
Could_not_watch_this_movie•7/22/2025
Good descriptions of exotic foreign locales & some clever innuendo which helps you fail to notice the lack of actual substance.