This is the story of Lars Windhorst, a racy financier with nine lives. Once a wunderkind of German business, dubbed the German Bill Gates, Windhorst survived a plane crash and has lost then rebuilt his fortune several times over. It's also the story of Bruno Crastes, the French finance star, whose investment firm, H2O Asset Management, seemingly put over €2bn into Windhorst’s ventures before it all came crashing down, destroying hundreds of millions of investors' money In this film, Windhorst gives his own account of some of his biggest scandals – from earning a criminal conviction to being blamed for instigating a smear campaign against a football club boss – as the FT asks: where did all the money go?
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00:00 Introduction
02:13 The rise and fall of Lars, the wunderkind of German business
05:30 A corporate survivor and a plane crash survivor
06:25 Mayfair and the superyacht
08:28 Bruno and H2O
10:23 The shell game
12:36 A turning point for H2O
14:24 Questions about money laundering
17:54 The investigation
20:29 Bruno runs into the Covid crash
21:59 The case against H2O
23:59 Billions of investors' money up in smoke
24:48 Israeli spies and Hertha Berlin
27:23 Nathaniel Rothschild backs Lars
28:29 Where did the money go?
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