King Liar(2018)

King Liar is a documentary series that chronicles the rise and fall of Jari Aarnio, a celebrated Finnish police officer who became Chief of the Narcotics Squad before his dramatic downfall. Once hailed as a hero—even defusing a grenade with garden shears—Aarnio built a reputation on flashy drug busts and quick results. The series reveals how investigators from Finland's National Bureau of Investigation and two reporters from the country's largest newspaper methodically exposed his systematic abuse of power. Their investigation uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise involving bribery, prostitution, drug trafficking, and money laundering. When arrested and convicted to a maximum sentence, Aarnio denied everything, leveraging allies across law enforcement, media, and government to frame the investigation as a witch hunt. King Liar tells the story of how persistence and hard work dismantled one of Finland's most shocking corruption cases.