Other People's Money(2025)

The biggest tax heist in European history.

Other People's Money is a documentary series that investigates one of Europe's largest financial crimes. The cum-ex scandal cost governments across multiple countries 146 billion euros in losses through a sophisticated stock dividend tax fraud scheme. Two determined women—one from Germany and one from Denmark—pursue the perpetrators and expose the mechanics of a scam that exploited legal loopholes for years. The series follows their efforts to dismantle the operation and hold those responsible accountable, revealing how traders and banks orchestrated the scheme and why it took so long to stop. Grounded in real events and real investigations, Other People's Money examines systemic failures that allowed the fraud to flourish unchecked.