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Lords of Scam
Les Rois de l'arnaque
2021 · Film · documentary · 105 min
Directed by Guillaume Nicloux
This documentary traces the rise and crash of scammers who conned the EU carbon quota system and pocketed millions before turning on one another.
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This story is told in the Netflix documentary “Lords of Scam”.
There’s also the fiction-based-on-a-true-story French movie Carbon from 2017.
"Lords of Scam" (2021) Original title: "Les rois de l'arnaque" | 1h 45m | Documentary
https://www.netflix.com/title/81092697#
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15711402/
https://www.netflix.com/title/81092697
Available in 33 countries: https://unogs.com/movie/81092697/lords-of-scam
I don't know if it's available outside France. But Netflix has made a documentary in french about Marco Mouly "Les Rois de l'arnaque" / "Kings of the scam". The least we can say is that he's a real piece of work. Most of the people involved are such caricatures of sephard that you wouldn't put them in a work of fiction. The man is a clown, boasts, lies, but at some point you can also see the fear in his eyes when his daughter is 15 minutes late because he fears for the lives of his loved ones. It's really the story of a couple of small-time VAT fraudsters from a poor Parisian suburb who stumbled onto something way too big for them and got caught out by some real gangsters.