Lars Windhorst and H2O: scandal, spies and the superyacht | FT Film

This is the story of Lars Windhorst, a racy financier with 9 lives. Once a wunderkind of German enterprise, dubbed the German Bill Gates, Windhorst survived a aircraft crash and has misplaced then rebuilt his fortune a number of instances over. It’s additionally the story of Bruno Crastes, the French finance star, whose funding agency, H2O Asset Management, seemingly put over €2bn into Windhorst’s ventures earlier than all of it got here crashing down, destroying tons of of hundreds of thousands of traders’ cash In this movie, Windhorst offers his personal account of a few of his largest scandals – from incomes a felony conviction to being blamed for instigating a smear marketing campaign in opposition to a soccer membership boss – because the FT asks: the place did all the cash go?

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00:00 Introduction
02:13 The rise and fall of Lars, the wunderkind of German enterprise
05:30 A company survivor and a aircraft crash survivor
06:25 Mayfair and the superyacht
08:28 Bruno and H2O
10:23 The shell sport
12:36 A turning level for H2O
14:24 Questions about cash laundering
17:54 The investigation
20:29 Bruno runs into the Covid crash
21:59 The case in opposition to H2O
23:59 Billions of traders’ cash up in smoke
24:48 Israeli spies and Hertha Berlin
27:23 Nathaniel Rothschild backs Lars
28:29 Where did the cash go?

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