The Dreyfus affair, Watergate, the Vatican Bank fraud, the first Ponzi scheme, weapons of mass destruction, Stanford and the billions, the Enron scandal. 50 economic and political scandals that shook the world.

Clever frauds ignite our imagination. The mechanisms behind frauds and scandals are the spice of history and have fascinated the public since antiquity. Modern media either attract public attention to private matters or conceal them. The book "Frauds & Scandals" examines the consequences of 50 of the world's most famous political cover-ups.