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LATVIA - CLOSER THAN SWITZERLAND

By Ilze Ozolina · 4 parts · 13 h 23 min · English

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Riga, 1991 to 2026. For twenty-five years Latvia's banks took in the money of the former Soviet Union through companies nobody owned on paper, its oil port made one mayor a national power, and its anti-corruption bureau recorded the country's richest men discussing how to divide its newspapers and its government. Then, in eleven days of February 2018, an American notice destroyed the third-largest bank and the governor of the central bank was detained. This is the story of what Latvia's own investigators knew, why its courts took so long, and what became of the people they caught. Covers Aivars Lembergs and the port of Ventspils, Ilmārs Rimšēvičs and Trasta Komercbanka, Ernests Bernis and ABLV Bank, Ivans Haritonovs and the Riga rackets, and Vladimir Antonov and Latvijas Krājbanka.

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  1. Part 01

    2:45:44

  2. Part 02

    3:23:23

  3. Part 03

    3:13:26

  4. Part 04

    4:00:52

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