Malta's Pilatus Bank: Money Laundering in an EU Member State

Podcast: The Fraud Archive Dialogues · The Archive Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

You pass an ordinary office on a sunny Maltese street, its sign polished, its paperwork impeccable. Behind that glass, a private bank is quietly assembling something far more dangerous than it appears—a system that would one day ripple across continents.In the early two thousand tens, Malta was eager to remake itself. The country wore its European Union membership as a badge, signaling modernity, stability, and access to the financial world’s inner circles. Here, in this climate of ambition, Pilatus Bank materialized not as a scandal, but as an idea: a private bank on a small island, plugged into...