Trump, Putin & Co. - Deutsche Bank’s questionable clientele | DW Documentary

Deutsche Bank managers driven by greed set it on the wrong track in the 2000s. For many years, the financial institution maintained close ties with Vladimir Putin. And involved itself in shady deals with the Russian autocrat.
In the early 2000s, Deutsche Bank wanted to make it big in Moscow. For some employees, this was something to be achieved by any means necessary: bribing Putin’s officials, brothel visits for good customers, money laundering for the mafia.
When it all came to light, this sent a shock wave through the bank: to this day, Deutsche Bank is still laboring under the burden of fines totaling billions. But the CEOs claimed total innocence. Just one of many scandals.
Other questionable deals include loans to Donald Trump. The bank’s very special relationship with the US-American real estate tycoon began in the year 1998. Trump was one of Deutsche Bank’s best customers until shortly before his 2017 presidency. The credit institute loaned him huge sums - despite his track record for business bankruptcy and a dubious reputation as a defaulting debtor.
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[@gargoyle7863]

Every doctor, every lawyer, every architect would lose his license. How can it be Deutsche Bank still is holding a bank license? 😮‍💨

[@rambleon2838]

Because well connected bankers, politicians, lawyers and real estate developers are above the law. The justice system will always find somebody to make an example out of it. Remember, Sam Bankman-Fried, Bernie Madoff , Martha Stewart, ect. took the fall for the corrupt system they've been working in. Law and justice always makes an example out of an individual who overstepped the redline of corruption acceptable. The rest moves on unscathed.

[@mogeking56]

To big to fail

[@rambleon2838]

Reading Deutsche Bank's scandalous wiki page should have forced the German government to brake up that bank long time ago. Nobody is too big to fail.

[@jlav470]

Let the DB fail and all involved send the to jail

[@rosscann6461]

"money makes the world go round" (and keeps politicians afloat)

[@barbaraseymour3437]

DW continues with its excellent documentaries.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for your comment!

[@mattsoca1]

Deutsche Bank should be banned from conducting any business in the US. This would be catastrophic for the "dirty" institution.

[@termitedome]

You forget to mention half of wall street

[@rambleon2838]

Deutsche Bank's little sister bank the Raiffeisen Bank International AG should be too. Raiffeisen Bank was willing to finance Trump's project in Toronto after all other major banks said, NO!!!!! It's clear now that it was a Russian oligarch's money laundering operation. I believe Raiffeisen never seen the $ 310 million of investment and wrote it off.

[@chrisw.5138]

Half? All the banks are more or less entangled, and that willingly. Do any of them ever need to fear prison time?

[@MyLoganTreks]

I think they got screwed just like many of Trump's contractors were never paid more than 70% of the contracts and if you argue he would attack and fight you in the courts with his 600 attorneys on staff.

[@MyLoganTreks]

Actually their low share price makes them a ripe target for acquisition.. I would not be surprised if a deal is made in the next few years while their price is low.

[@swhaht6807]

Excellent investigative journalism. Thank you.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching!

[@sonjagatto9981]

How do you know?

[@gaelicd8328]

​@@sonjagatto9981know what ?

[@terryl3948]

Great explanation of DB history and its greedy leaders. Thanks for posting this.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

[@mayormc]

Once again stellar journalism by DW. I knew Deutsche Bank had turned into a joke, but I did not know about all the sordid details.

[@OneAmongBillions]

Thank you for this thorough representation of unregulated greed. Humanity must do something about the dark triads among us.

[@CatherineStankina]

You are so right!! But.......after many years seeing so much greed and evil, I think the devil rules this workd. And, I don't believe we can beat him. It's just too easy for a person to take that money and keep taking it and keep the secret? Do you think I'm wrong??

[@OneAmongBillions]

​@@CatherineStankina If you believe there is a devil in this universe then you must believe there is also a god. You don't seem to have confidence that your god can vanquish the devil. By the way, what you label as the devil science describes as personality disorders which can have genetic origins. I think one day soon science will offer humanity the option to bear children without the diseases of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.

[@phylis3917]

Greed unbounded hard to overcome.

[@OneAmongBillions]

@@phylis3917 But we should try to put boundaries on greed, right?

[@sonjagatto9981]

@@phylis3917 It keeps going....especially in the USA. 2008. Why not letting them fail? It is a far bigger problem...but business as usual.❓

[@robb1324]

I find it incredible that Josef Ackermann is giving this interview in a nice home while wearing a nice suit - instead of giving this interview in a prison visitation room, while wearing a prison jumpsuit... and the person watching this documentary is NOT supposed to find this strange at all 🤯 We live in a mad, mad world 😣

[@irokpe6977]

A cyber fraudster without political connections will be in that situation you described. But once you have political power, you're a God. Nobody can humiliate you no matter what you do or don't do.

[@Zyzyx442]

@@irokpe6977 say that to Ceaușescu

[@i_am_elle_gee6917]

Because this "mad, mad world" rewards criminals IF and WHEN they're able to get away with it. And of course if they have faces as thick as the brick wall.

[@yam2050]

world runs on money, all heil black rock.

[@yam2050]

Capitalism is the way, way to go ccp.

[@RakehsM-g9y]

Working at Deutsche Bank in India I realized that this institution is full of bad and corrupt practices starting from hiring and training is all substandard. When you raise a concern about certain accounts the so called talent less management would overlook at it and rather put us in soup for highlighting issues. It's not a place for any honest bankers . I would never recommended this bank to anyone except if you planning to launder money easily

[@sonjagatto9981]

Coming from India...substandard? Don't work for Deutsche Bank...you are being put in soup. 🤣😨

[@marisabenson1222]

Well done on this one DW.

[@MyLoganTreks]

Agreed! Banking career in Tampa for 20 yrs this is a well done documentary once again DW on the Mark for producing excellent content!

[@kevindevane6175]

The arrogance of Ackermann is beyond the Pale! he strikes me as a man who knows where all the bodies are buried and therefore can't be touched by both Germany and Russia.

[@xcel5203]

Politicians want crooked businessmen and bureaucrats to do their job ; that is why people like Ackermann & co will never be punished . His kind survived WW 2 and flourished ; this is all so dejá vû .

[@rambleon2838]

Ackermann's Swiss dialect and close relationship to Swiss banks and insurance companies is very suspicious.

[@gracemunich1476]

where was the Aufsichtsrat? Supervisory board Achleitner? All Corrupt!

[@vijaymujumdar5617]

How come no banker ever gets punished for wrong doing on such a massive scale?

[@DumpsterRatTrading]

Because they are part of the legacy establishment, the globalist status quo. Those in power tend to preserve the power for their homies.

[@bor-ie3bu]

@@GabrielDiggs enoug hbanker get punished... just not the top ... just make sure you ahve enough contact in politics and justice... make sure you connect them to your business and now you own them ;)

[@namewithheldforprivacy7107]

Because no crime is committed!

[@bigdukesix4161]

Well, they will get theirs one day

[@MyLoganTreks]

Sorta like Michael Cohen, everyone is just puppets for the Grand Master... Bankers just want to keep their job and if you aren't performing you are pushed out, they use attrition.

[@marcuscollins7018]

How Ackerman can sit there with a straight face is pretty amazing…

[@gracemunich1476]

Fully Agree. Achleither is just as corrupt

[@alexlong3714]

His see he has done nothing wrong regardless of what other say.

[@sonjagatto9981]

I understand it. What do you expect?

[@erichbreckoff3405]

As long ethics is ab foreign Word to you a career in banking goes smooth.

[@jeffschroeder4805]

Greed knows no boundaries. Money laundering is apparently irresistible for bankers, millions and billions are never enough. Bonuses based upon the amount of money passed thru your bank doesn't exactly encourage closely examining the sources.

[@BRR999]

Traitors, thieves, criminals. Why these people are not in jail is beyond me... Blood money.

[@piconano]

Corruption here. Corruption there. Corruption everywhere.

[@Zyzyx442]

Difference is in our democratic society the corruption is exposed and with freedom of press good media outlets like DW can investigate and show the truth, unlike autocracies where corruption is protected at the end of a barrel of a gun.

[@phylis3917]

Human weakness, being it the lowest of the low to the so-called highest of the high.

[@maarifa4772]

Human Nature.

[@Laladowning]

Of course they were the only ones who were willing to give DJT money. Figured!!!

[@MyLoganTreks]

Not if you VOTE against these people

[@protow5041]

I couldn't be an upstanding citizen and still make large profits... Let that sink in.

[@jacquespotgieter2700]

Why do people like Ackerman still walk free?....

[@SalieriM]

I came here looking for this comment. How is he not in jail?

[@BondJFK]

because they're germans

[@kathyschreiber9947]

Not only him but that dim bulb "advisor" who apparently saw everything going on and now sanctimoniously acts aghast at what they were doing. Dude ,it was your job to blow the whistle on that.

[@KazenoniKakuremi]

he probably has receipts on those with power to arrest him lol

[@CyberspacedLoner]

they can bribe and blackmail prosecutors into giving them protection from prosecution

[@As5tro0]

"I never saw anything or has it been proven!" that's an innocent man right there.

[@rossr6616]

"but if I had..."

[@eminbc]

Imagine the wonderful paradise this entire world could have been if not for the greed and lust for power and control over others & everything. My soul grieves.

[@phylis3917]

So we must rejoice at our sanity. It IS incredible what greed will do to us and what people do for it.

[@Shelmerdine745]

You mean socialism?

[@swhaht6807]

Males hold this realm tightly- notice few females in the agency meetings, although given chance, women would not be different.

[@tarstarkusz]

If only people weren't people, then utopia could exist.

[@allenhampton3064]

Your saying you have to be greedy in order not to be a socialist? Just don't be greedy be fare and follow the rules with everyone else. @@Shelmerdine745p

[@WormholeJim]

"Throughout his life he has been a terrible businessman. One failure after another. That was almost his business model." Ah. Like silver rain on a parched piece of desert land hearing her say that. Not like we didn't know, we just never heard anyone of that calibre say it out loud before.

[@0101-s7v]

Talk to any business person and ask them how many failures they had compared to successes. If you don't fail, you're not trying hard enough. And I don't even care for the guy, I just objective. Try it sometime.

[@Lana-oe3qy]

This could apply to Trump too.

[@0101-s7v]

@@Lana-oe3qy and yet Trump is worth billions. How much is in your bank account?

[@WormholeJim]

@@0101-s7v How much is yours? Like that's a measure of human worth.

[@0101-s7v]

@@WormholeJim "like that the measure of human worth." No, dum dum. And I'm not a businessman. People are crowing about how Trump is a "failure" as a businessman, yet Trump is worth billions. If people are going to call him a "failure," at what he does, they should probably be qualified first. PS, I don't have to like the guy to be objective.

[@greymouser8659]

The hubris....that he accepted the invitation for an interview.

[@robb1324]

Like the book OJ Simpson wrote: "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" These people know they're above the law, and they get off on publicly flaunting it 😒

[@williamobryan682]

Thank you for posting . If you think education is expensive , see what ignorance costs .

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

[@williamobryan682]

@@DWDocumentary I like to watch your newscasts on public television here in the US.

[@phylis3917]

🎯

[@EnriqueScott-se3vp]

I always look forward to DW documentary whether it's business or arts and culture DW never disappoint and yes I am an American

[@liberty-matrix]

"There's one overriding fact. The entire financial system of the Western world is in private unelected unaccountable hands, the hands of people who meet in absolute secrecy. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) every four five six weeks has a meeting of the top governors of the banks, and they meet in absolute secrecy. And they have the big banking families and so forth, they all meet up. The 'minutes' are never made available and they decide on the money creation and the money supply of the world. But none of us are allowed to know anything about it." ~Justin Walker, 03/20/2023

[@RoxanneM-]

Are you new to planet earth? You sound like you have discovered something earthshaking. By the way, banks are a private business.

[@nadiateinert9374]

And once a year they all meet in Davos. Ackermann is Swiss, so fits the bill.

[@hethm.8159]

Putin speaks perfect German. Lol.

[@MyLoganTreks]

Don't forget his roots and training in the KGB spy training he is very advanced.

[@hethm.8159]

@@MyLoganTreks Advanced? 20 plus years as a dictator and just can’t get Russia out of poverty. With a GDP below Italy that is a tiny country compared to Russia. Really advanced. Lol. Cheers!

[@xantiom]

Of course, he was stationed as a KGB clerk in East Germany, duh

[@xantiom]

​​@@MyLoganTrekshe was at the KGB but nothing advanced, he was a low level clerk

[@MarlonGwapo-d4l]

👍👍👍👍👍​@@MyLoganTreks

[@michaellanoue9156]

Wasn’t Deutche Bank a key provider in helping Trump after one of his bankruptcies?

[@marisabenson1222]

Yes. Firstly they were ine of the very few who would provide a loan. Interestingly this was helped by the son of a Republican retired Supreme Court judge who happened to be working there at the time. When trump couldn't repay the loan they sued him and he counter sued with the argument that they should never have loaned him the money. In other words you knew I wasn't good for it by your own standards but went ahead anyway so it's your fault. Trump is never to blame.

[@sheilaboston7051]

@@marisabenson1222 Said retired SC judge had never talked about retiring up until then - enter Gorsuch ...

[@michaellanoue9156]

@@marisabenson1222 you are correct. The Supreme Court Justice was Anthony Kennedy. His son worked for Deutche Bank and is directly implicated in loans to bail out Trump when no other bank did so.

[@Laladowning]

​@@marisabenson1222, I love this, so true. Have you heard him tell the frozen snake story? He is the snake in the story and the cult followers who are too stupid to get it will still vote for him but it's only about 25 percent of the people. The traditional Republican is not going to vote for him that is for sure.

[@Laladowning]

​@@sheilaboston7051, that was Kennedy. Yes he appointed 3 judges and they are all on the take. Our SCOTUS is illegitimate and we are going to have to get rid of the lifetime appointments and stack the court until we can balance the court and give it back it's legitimacy and honor. We have some really good democrats in the Congress and Senate and it will be better in 4 years. Biden has done great things and they are doing everything to make it seem like he is as corrupt as trump but people who are educated and read legitimate news know the truth, he has been in politics for 50 plus years and he is not for sale and his bank account proves that he is not on the take. All they have done is target his son who had a drug problem but he is not doing drugs anymore but Don't Trump Jr. seems to be on something when he is on camera he is all hyped up like a cocaine addict acts. They are always projecting, so whatever they accuse Biden or his son of is what they themselves are doing.

[@genovo]

"I saw Nothing. They've proved Nothing."

[@mogeking56]

These criminals have broken the back of Germany 🇩🇪 and Russia 🇷🇺

[@Anton-ji4td]

As he said 'Criminal gambling den', Sums it up.

[@tomo1168]

why on earth is this person not serving right now life in prison?

[@the_piper001]

cause they have nothing on him lol even all the frame jobs and b.s cases are now coming apart

[@plantbasedsenior4240]

OP is not talking about Felon Trump and you know that. @@the_piper001

[@nadiateinert9374]

Why is Trump still free?

[@the_piper001]

@@nadiateinert9374 cause the left have failed at framing him at ever turn lol

[@majortom8047]

I worked for years as a consultant specializing in building technical solutions for hinky clients who needed to camouflage their businesses. Our clients were spread across many industries (banking, entertainment, industrial, mining, consumer, aerospace) and all without exception were tainted or outright corrupt. They were located in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Asia, Europe, the Middle East----worldwide. Only North Korea escaped our area of interest. This is far from being anything new. It is just international business.

[@Zyzyx442]

15:19 Guy has a whole wall with pictures of himself? How can the GOP still nominate this man?

[@the_piper001]

trump will win and he will save america by undoing as much as joes mess as he can

[@Zyzyx442]

@@the_piper001 Disagree man, the cult of personality based on reactionary fear and loathing will weaken America immensly and ruin your social cohesion, Democracy do not suffer demagogue without entropy.

[@sheilaboston7051]

When donnie got done for swindling his "foundation," one of the "expenses" was a great big portrait of himself.

[@the_piper001]

@@sheilaboston7051 joe not fit to stand train while hunter gets a free pass for his crimes

[@Nils.Minimalist]

​@@the_piper001

[@blueberry-ri7eb]

"Bankers are the New Gangsters"....Martin Scorsese

[@GisleVanem00]

"It is a crime to rob a bank, but it is a greater crime to found one" -- Berthold Brecht wrote that.

[@kings2147]

Old gangsters, nothing new here. They called Biden credit card senator.

[@V8-friendly]

"Follow the money!"💰💰💰

[@MyLoganTreks]

Forensic accountants need to investigate several of the banks Trump did business with.

[@MyLoganTreks]

And the reputational risk doing business with corruption...

[@sent4dc]

How's that sleazy guy still walking free?

[@squireson]

Which one ?

[@MyLoganTreks]

Do you mean Trump or Putin?

[@gracemunich1476]

@@MyLoganTreksboth, plus ackermann and achleitner

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

The banksters NEVER go to jail. Don't you know that? Just like the clergy. Law is not for everyone, only for everyday dudes like you and me.

[@AizonDeSoteraux-tv1xx]

In my opinion, Ackerman..is an embarrassment to the GERMAN people..AND FOR GERMANY AS A WHOLE

[@ostwelt]

Lucky he is Swiss then and probably doesn't much care for your petty observations.

[@voulathomacos-lagonas8445]

My mother always said " WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND " SO....they DEALT WITH THE DEVIL ......now it's time to feel the fires of HELL

[@MP_mp20]

Great documentary

[@sheilaboston7051]

DW always sees to bring the goods.

[@kory2578]

Propaganda

[@960john]

And terrible for its shareholders! Invesment banks have bad track records (same Credit Suisse). Corruption and high risk tolerance don't pay.

[@kyoshoppingmart4683]

It’s time ppl pull money out of DB, before their accounts are confiscated because of fraud.

[@keithdunwoody1302]

Sgt Schulz: "I see nothing, I know nothing!" Always follow the money. Then you can't say you were unaware.

[@chrisw.5138]

Jesus, the smug face of this man still walking free makes it impossible for me watching that doc. I'm out.

[@detectiveofmoneypolitics]

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still following this very informative content cheers Frank 😊

[@Kimfakkel]

Put them in prison !

[@helloicanseeu2]

they earn millions and stay out of prison, that's capitalism

[@Rezistons]

Put in prison!

[@winstonchurchill8300]

For breaking what law exactly?

[@jonnovember2136]

Make them pay from their transgressions💸... 🌎💘💰

[@winstonchurchill8300]

@@jonnovember2136 what Transgression

[@ianmuir3640]

They have no problem giving Trump as much money as he wants WHY ?

[@Shelmerdine745]

The money came from Russia, Trump just got a small part of it, the rest went back to tax havens.

[@RoxanneM-]

All roads lead to Putin.

[@J.M.-nb4gw]

​@@RoxanneM-exactly 💯

[@wordsculpt]

This bank is known for money laundering for Russia. A great deal of money changes hands.

[@swhaht6807]

Quid in pro quo. Stay tuned

[@tomhermens7698]

He, Ackerman , hasnever seen any corruption at DW. Of course not, he was top boss of the mafioso!!!

[@filmawayvlad]

He is Swiss, as I can tell by listening to his German

[@sonjagatto9981]

@@filmawayvlad Correct...but he was the head of Deutsche Bank in my Country. For whatever reason I liked Ackerman as a Person. 🙄

[@douggoldstein2433]

Competition with Swiss Bank those Swiss guys need an update

[@nadiateinert9374]

Ackermann is Swiss

[@fleur-de-lis_uk_usa]

As usual excellent documentary. Of course none of these rich men will go to jail although they were clearly engaged in illegal activities to enrich themselves and their cohorts.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

[@winstonchurchill8300]

Illegal? Okay, what law exactly did those people break and in which country. Or is your command just criminal illegal slander?

[@harveywong4605]

GREED, Follow the money!

[@somaghosh2960]

Another extraordinary documentary. Thank you DW. Power is Terrible thing.

[@jameshong2203]

absolute power corrupts absolutely

[@UnderThreatNationNews5.0]

Deutsche Bank knew Donald Trump, was no good.😅😅😅😅

[@NyanyiC]

Thank you DW team for your insightful documentaries. You and John Oliver's Last week tonight have given me a better understanding of the world 😊

[@bigmedge]

Oliver is occasionally funny , but he’s also an economically illiterate supporter of socialism , so any of his conclusions must be taken with a large grain of salt

[@JohnnyRico8]

😂😂😂

[@RaniVeluNachar-kx4lu]

Viktor Vekselberg probably had more money in his tennis shorts than most US CEO's have in their whole portfolios;

[@almadd536]

Lol somehow I felt obliged to help this country. Ackerman should be in prison.

[@ziggyustar3137]

corruption at the root

[@IlirMucollari]

No such thing as Bad Publicity !

[@robertshelton9881]

Thanks for this essay.

[@user-se9uk2py5k]

Banking and finance is important for society, but it has to be done with a high level of integrity and responsibility. Happy and silly faced ackermann should be in jail.

[@JuliLatkas]

Trump to should be in prison he was part of the the the criminal scheme 🤮👎🤮👎🤮👎🤮

[@KateBurn]

Brilliant doc. Thanks

[@Esbbbb]

Very good documentary. Looking forward to the RBI version in one or two years. :)

[@mufflejoy]

No consequence => no change. No surprises. There is still too much money in investment banking.

[@phil20_20]

So that's their connection.

[@Defort-jd8xe]

lmaooo please tell me you're trolling

[@sevenprovinces]

Thank you team DW Documentary for bringing us these absolutely fascinating and deeply important documentaries and investigations! I propose a new law of the internet: for every 25 cat videos watched one must watch one DW Documentary. After all "You can't be better than the competition allows you to be" 🙄

[@dulio12385]

"Throughout his life he has been a terrible businessman. One failure after another. That was almost his business model." You gotta wonder how she must've felt watching Trump walking into the White House with a big orange smile.

[@myusername101100]

greed and cynicism made glamorous and fancy....how are these people not in jail???

[@grizzlednerd4521]

(24:18) "You can't be better than the competition allows you to be." Classic moral race-to-the-bottom thinking.

[@kings2147]

Yes, but he is talking about business ethics and practices in banking sector.

[@marisabenson1222]

The photo session of trump and Ivanka was creepy. They looked like they were a couple.

[@sheilaboston7051]

"If Ivanka wasn't my daughter, I would probably be dating her." DJT When asked during a TV interview, what they have in common Ivanka said "Real Estate and Golf Donnie said: Sex

[@whatGoodisLife]

I thought corruption only occurred in developing countries, but it turns out it also exists in developed countries.

[@birgitlucci9419]

Oh no, it just isn't that obvious. Polititions do favours and after leaving office they are offered well paid jobs on supervising boards or even as CEO's 😅

[@arabakoleman1132]

It started from there with all the looting , plundering, arm-twisting and coup d´etats they ochestrated in "third world countries." They cloak themselves with "decency " and go around the world being the morality police and getting into the businesses of so called third world.

[@Laladowning]

​@@birgitlucci9419, you don't see anyone offering this to Trump and you won't.

[@winstonchurchill8300]

Stop thinking. Obviously thinking it is not for you.

[@elvinaguero4651]

lol you have learnt something new.

[@gregparrott]

A sequel documentary could be made Deutsche Bank&Trump - How a bank aided a corrupt and stupid man stumble into the presidency

[@JustAnotherGoddess52]

Why are these men never held responsible for their putrid actions? So much injustice. So much money. What good does a "fine" do? Nothing.

[@malalachernobyl5594]

Which is the oldest profession prostitution oh corruption? Deutsche Bank promoted both

[@Joaodocaminhao0234]

Thank you

[@joem0088]

DB is a question bank which has a questionable clientele.

[@ryanreedgibson]

Questionable bank indeed and all banks are responsible to know their clientele. I don't believe they rise to the level of HSBC in the way of criminality.

[@thebowlingchannelnetwork5182]

is think i can do a better job. i can't screw up more then they did

[@robb1324]

If by "questionable" you mean 'criminal', then yes

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

DB is actually Deutsche Bahn.....

[@nanucit]

DB as well? What has Deutsche Bahn done now?

[@alexlong3714]

For him, business is business, as long as it is legally to do so. Agreed 100%. He suggested that the West had pushed Russia too far, for Russia to response as it did in Crimea. 100% agreed. That is the reality. No?

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta serve, suffer, and submit. That's just how it be. Thousands of years of consistency, too.

[@commentsarefree4311]

Great video by DW

[@jjthompke5192]

Why do people with power and money, make so many stupid mistakes? Is it that, money doesn't at all make them smart?

[@toryal7510]

Thieves ring Moscow, Berlin and London. 😂🤦‍♂️

[@branko917]

The sole purpose of any bank is to lauder the dirty money.

[@toddcorrigan4874]

How much money and campaign donations ended up in trumps pocket???

[@rodinkumar3628]

I am not surprised.. once upon a time we thought banks and bankers were honest .. how wrong were we then … they have been always the key players in money laundering.. That’s the most lucrative business..

[@charlielauffer7644]

Personally, I think Akerman didn't take Putin's offer because he didn't want to take 3rd story balcony diving lessons. 😂

[@DE-xt7jv]

Ackerman is shameless. He should just stay playing golf in Ascona

[@RonaldPetrin]

“Unpleasant intrigue” an understatement at best.

[@williambrown5966]

Investment banking is just gambling ! Suggest the Bank give next 50 year profits to Ukraine in reparations.

[@markemarkatfb]

Disagree. Investment banks create ways for clients to manage their risks. Some clients use them sensibly to manage their risks down (e.g. hedging foreign exchange exposure) and some using them to increase their risk by taking out exposure to things like sub-prime mortgages as a pure speculation. The correct question, in my humble opinion, is whether clients were properly informed and aware of what they were buying. Anyway most of this video is about fraud, or at the very least stretching of rules to the limits of decency, rather than gambling.

[@nadiateinert9374]

How about Trump being banned, thrown in prison and his Trump Tower sold and money given to Ukraine.

[@kings2147]

Criminal greed for last 30 years is even worse in Ukraine.

[@marybardmess7953]

This is very interesting. The incessant drum beats are annoy9ng.

[@k-unitylo5897]

Nice! do our entire American financial system next.

[@mitchellscheer677]

The American financial system, particularly post-2008, is much more stringent than almost any country in the world. That's why so little Russian $ was stored there and why money laundering occurs in places like the Bahamas and Cyprus. You don't want the American IRS near your bank accounts.

[@mrtee3477]

@@mitchellscheer677 defund the IRS.

[@18_rabbit]

@@mrtee3477 yeah u would say that if u are trying to do deals visavis americans or buy property here, and do so with dirty money. We're wising up over time.

[@18_rabbit]

@@mitchellscheer677 abso correct! I can personally attest!

[@geometria3]

😂😂 yeah right

[@a.m.8670]

How about when Putin invaded Ukrainie crimea in 2014 and Germany was building nordstream with Putin in 2014 and 2015 like nothing happened? Why didn't Germany support Ukrainie than???

[@marisabenson1222]

Yes absolutely. Many German politicians need further scrutiny.

[@Nils.Minimalist]

Because our politicians are puppets of our economy and our economy wanted to do business with Russia. It's as simple as that.

[@kings2147]

Germany making big mistake supporting Ukraine.

[@kory2578]

Great film

[@charlesbeaudry3263]

Trump, Putin, Deutchbank. All peas in a pod. So much fun to be rich and immune.

[@darlington2870]

Akerman was a Russian FSB

[@dominic9028]

I don't know why the surprise with the way the world is....did anyone ever hear of human nature, greed, selfishness, corruption, nepotism etc etc.

[@johanvaneeden4411]

Accurate.

[@bartojoh]

"We know nothing!" Seriously.

[@DeePark1410]

Driven by Greed…Metaphor for Trump!

[@maggotman2024]

Re brothels and bankers: these banks can say they are full service institutions.

[@ivans2618]

Its not only Deutsche, Raiffeisen and Italian groups are stil hwlping russia

[@kings2147]

And all former USSR and Yugoslavian Republics.

[@user-yz3uz4ny8j]

It will be fun if there an independent outlets start to investigate all these news channel owners.