This is such an important movie, to understand how difficult it is to reveal dark finance. If you are not an insider, it's not that easy to understand how far some seemingly unimportant erased data by a computer administrator can lead to high security state affairs, elections, terrorism, assassinations.
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, these are the foundations of success in Luxembourg's Banking were Clearstream could develop strategies to hide names in transactions.
As there is nothing wrong, there's no need for control mechanisms either. If you happen to know to much, if you get caught by remorse, you just get laid off, deprived of work, or even promoted.
The important role of auditing companies to cover up, is not forgotten. Arthur Anderson audited Clearstream, permitting the luxemburger Prosecutor to close the case. One of their employees got dismissed, and Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to its audit of Enron. No biased conclusions, please.
The depiction of the Luxemburg's mentality, made of personal interest and cowardliness not to get involved, especially on the level of Justice, is excellent. So is the acting of luxemburger actors.
Denis Robert, the french journalist, doesn't realize he's engaging a Don Quixotte fight. His sources get treated not as witness, but as accused. How true, how disillusioning. What's worse, his revelations get out of control and mislead to fool ongoing investigations.
This is such an important movie, to understand why investigative journalism is dying, as their sources can't be protected. You better have no children and wife, if you intend to be a whistle-blower.
Personally, I'd kept my mouth shut.
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, these are the foundations of success in Luxembourg's Banking were Clearstream could develop strategies to hide names in transactions.
As there is nothing wrong, there's no need for control mechanisms either. If you happen to know to much, if you get caught by remorse, you just get laid off, deprived of work, or even promoted.
The important role of auditing companies to cover up, is not forgotten. Arthur Anderson audited Clearstream, permitting the luxemburger Prosecutor to close the case. One of their employees got dismissed, and Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to its audit of Enron. No biased conclusions, please.
The depiction of the Luxemburg's mentality, made of personal interest and cowardliness not to get involved, especially on the level of Justice, is excellent. So is the acting of luxemburger actors.
Denis Robert, the french journalist, doesn't realize he's engaging a Don Quixotte fight. His sources get treated not as witness, but as accused. How true, how disillusioning. What's worse, his revelations get out of control and mislead to fool ongoing investigations.
This is such an important movie, to understand why investigative journalism is dying, as their sources can't be protected. You better have no children and wife, if you intend to be a whistle-blower.
Personally, I'd kept my mouth shut.