This is the story of Lars Windhorst, a racy financier with nine lives. Once a wunderkind of German business, dubbed the German Bill Gates, Windhorst survived a plane crash and has lost then rebuilt his fortune several times over. It’s also the story of Bruno Crastes, the French finance star, whose investment firm, H2O Asset Management, seemingly put over \u20ac2bn into Windhorst\u2019s ventures before it all came crashing down, destroying hundreds of millions of investors’ money In this film, Windhorst gives his own account of some of his biggest scandals \u2013 from earning a criminal conviction to being blamed for instigating a smear campaign against a football club boss \u2013 as the FT asks: where did all the money go?<\/p>\n
#finance #scandal #spies #bonds #trading #investors #investment #larswindhorst #brunocrastes #h2oassermanagement #tennorgroup #sapinda #kpmg #natixis #caceisbank #nathanielrothschild #superyachts #spies #herthaberlin #football <\/p>\n
00:00 Introduction
\n02:13 The rise and fall of Lars, the wunderkind of German business
\n05:30 A corporate survivor and a plane crash survivor
\n06:25 Mayfair and the superyacht
\n08:28 Bruno and H2O
\n10:23 The shell game
\n12:36 A turning point for H2O
\n14:24 Questions about money laundering
\n17:54 The investigation
\n20:29 Bruno runs into the Covid crash
\n21:59 The case against H2O
\n23:59 Billions of investors’ money up in smoke
\n24:48 Israeli spies and Hertha Berlin
\n27:23 Nathaniel Rothschild backs Lars
\n28:29 Where did the money go? <\/p>\n
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