Other People's Money

Season 1

2025 · 8 episodes · 5h 57m in all · 7.2/10

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   13 Apr 2025 · 44 min · 7.0/10

   In Frankfurt, tax lawyer Dr. Bernd Hausner and the young Sven Lebert set up a fund based on the double refund of capital gains tax: so-called Cum-Ex transactions.

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   2. Episode 2

   13 Apr 2025 · 44 min · 7.0/10

   In Germany and Denmark, legislation is being drafted in parallel to prevent cum-ex transactions. However, in both countries, the banking lobby is succeeding in influencing the legislation.

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   3. Episode 3

   13 Apr 2025 · 45 min · 7.0/10

   Hausner and Lebert realize that their business partner, Fred Allen, has been cheating on them for years; they can't report him. For the first time, Lebert considers a future without his mentor.

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   4. Episode 4

   13 Apr 2025 · 45 min · 6.5/10

   Young tax official Anna Nowak refuses to reimburse Hausner and Lebert's funds worth millions. She informs public prosecutor Lena Birkwald, who takes over the case.

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   5. Episode 5

   14 Apr 2025 · 45 min · 7.5/10

   Public Prosecutor Birkwald and her team are slowly becoming aware of the extent of the cum-ex transactions. She is pursuing a plan to conduct simultaneous searches in 16 countries.

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   6. Episode 6

   14 Apr 2025 · 45 min · 8.0/10

   The worldwide searches were a complete success for Public Prosecutor Birkwald – much to the displeasure of Hausner and Lebert. Lebert also learned that he had been let down by her.

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   7. Episode 7

   14 Apr 2025 · 45 min · 7.0/10

   With Lebert's help, investigative journalists Liholt from Copenhagen and Fromm from Hamburg deceive the Cum-Ex fraudster Akram and get a picture of the shocking extent of the scandal.

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   8. Episode 8

   14 Apr 2025 · 44 min · 7.5/10

   Lena Birkwald succeeds in making the extent of tax fraud clear to the Finance Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. But Birkwald also wants to get to grips with the institutions themselves: the banks.