Football's $1 Billion Bank Fraud Scandal
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- čas přidán 11. 08. 2021
- Whilst football is a joyous sport, adored almost all the world over, the business of football is often a murky world made up deceit, money laundering, and extremely sketchy characters.
Whilst watching UEFAs new Europa Conference League, I discovered one such example - the tale of a Moldovan team whose owner and president has been implicated in a $1 billion bank fraud scandal that almost bankrupted Europe's poorest nation.
So in this documentary, HITC Sevens takes a look at Moldova's 2015 top flight title winners Milsami Orhei, their controversial owner, and the crime he is accused of committing. - Sport
I've learnt a surprising amount about Eastern European politics through this channel
And it is rarely good news
@@archstanton6102 depends if you want to believe Western mainstream media or actually look at what's really happening
@@thomaskendell8146 Yes because all western media lies unlike any other country, state or area?
@Yeet Yeet it doesn't really get old though. At least in the U.K. with the TV licence, we're obliged to complain about nonsense articles and self-serving agendas.
@Yeet Yeet complaining about media is "Communist propaganda" thats amazing. We all know mainstream media is bad, but if you actually complain about it, it's propaganda? Why can't we critique bad systems without it being Communist? This is a really weird angle.
man can we just appreciate the huge learning value of this channel?
its not just a football channel lmao
And football is more than just a game. In the case of teams such as Sunderland, Bolton and Bury, they're the pride of the city. And in places as destitute as Moldova, they both willingly and unwillingly play a part in the fragile political landscape of Post-Soviet lunacy and geopolitical Autism.
'Moldova has played a key part in European money laundering for some time'. Moldova's money laundering activities are a drop in the ocean compared to the city of London.
Alfie, that wasn't just a burn. you torched Tottenham with nuclear fire. rendered them down to a bubbling grease.
Alfie didn't just burn Spurs. He nuked them from orbit.
Spurs 1 Man City 0
@@d0ntfeedphil447 and?
@@d0ntfeedphil447 Palace 3 spurs 0
Takes Alfie exactly 44 seconds to piss of Spurs fans. Impressive xD
fun fact: 44 is Lewis Hamilton's number, and he is a Gooner
The Conference League has already provided Irish clubs our strongest performances in Europe for a while. Although Shamrock Rovers remain the only team standing, 1 round away from the groupstages, Dundalk and Bohemians gave amazing accounts of themselves against Vitesse and PAOK respectively. The Conference League is already a success in my eyes.
It's good for football interest to not be consolidated in a few teams in a few leagues. I'm all for this.
People look down on conference league because they think of NBA, NFL, yet these people failed to realize that this is what’s helping smaller clubs compete.
You are offering them an opportunity that no German club will get a chance to beat the top clubs and win.
The NBA for example: the Milwaukee bucks just won their 2nd championship and they are a small market team. The Cleveland Cavs won their championship because of Lebron James and they are a small market.
A team that is Small market mean that the team is located in small markets.
Compare to LA and NY, the market is huge, that’s why it’s best to give these cities a team. Miami Heat is another team in which Miami, Florida has great weather and it’s another destination for players to want to play there. And the organization knows how to take care of their players. They are a great organization.
A small market cites like Detroit isn’t a good place to place a team there. Small market means less ticket sales. Large market memes bigger ticket sales.
Even Alfie is firing shots at Tottenham, they really can't catch a break. 😂
As an Arsenal fan, when I thought I couldn't adore Alfie more he takes cheapshots at Sp*rs to my absolute delight 🥰
@@karlfroberg520 I can imagine 😂😂😂
@@karlfroberg520 what a weird way of saying "I'm glad we were so bad we finished 8th"
😂 I had a feeling he’d say it lowblow but I rate it
I hope that Tottenham Hotspur would win a trophy in a near future to end their hoodoo of not winning any silverware for the past 13 years,good friends!!!:-D
I go to my local team who are in the conference north and it is nice to sit and watch football without all the frills and overpriced food and drink. Making it to first round proper in the FA Cup is a dream, this Uefa Conference league gives that sort of vibe so its good imo, be nice to see teams from all over and learning about new clubs. It's the love of the game.
A better idea imo is to put all cl games on Tuesday the el on Wednesday and conference league on Thursday
@@Micfri300 cant do that though can they because that will affect viewing figures for their flagship competition. CL will always take priority.
@@garyohara4612 yes but it totally devalues the conference league imo. Or you could put it Friday night and the teams involved play their domestic games on Monday evening
@@Micfri300 lets be honest now, not many people will be watching obscure European teams playing in the third tier of European football on a Thursday night will they? It will never get anywhere near the viewing figures of even a Europa League game so by compressing the fixture list in the way you have suggested all it would do is hugely devalue the Champions League by reducing sponsorship and advertising revenue due to the decrease in viewers.
@@garyohara4612 champions league on a Tuesday everyone will watch. The conference league would allow those living in eastern Europe to attend their teams play without having to miss Europa league games too. I think its an excellent solution
A video about Unirea Urziceni from Romania would be interesting. I remember when they played in CL 2009/2010. And since 2011 or 2012 the club do not exist anymore. 🤷🏽♂️
Day 13: where would a team of Alfie Potts Harmer lookalikes finish in the premier league?
1st
Even as a spurs fan I still enjoyed this video despite getting third degree burns. As tax for this I am once again requesting a documentary on portsmouth's near bankruptcy in the years after they won the FA Cup in 2008 :))
@TV Memories No way roma are crap
@TV Memories nope can’t see it
@TV Memories it’s the Italian league it’s miles behind the premier league. Teams are far weaker
@Tv memories this aged well
You MUST do a vid about Copa Peru. Incredibly confusing organization, cows on the pitch and a guaranteed place in the First Division to the winner, no matter what level of the pyramid they come from. And those are just the tip of the iceberg
I thought it doesn't exist anymore
@@LechuKawaii It very much does!
The Copa was cancelled in 2020 (like so many other things), but the 2021 season is going strong. Semi-finals will finish today, with the match between Credicoop San Cristóbal and Alfonso Ugarte, the winner of which will face Asociación Deportiva Tarma on Monday. San Cristóbal have the most to gain, as they currently play in 4th tier.
I say semi-finals, but of course there's only one semi-final (the other finalist is determined in an alternative way). As Juan G. says, it's a funny competition.
Wait a minute, cows on the pitch?
I just got back from a trip to Moldova this week and was wondering what football was like in the country after seeing 3 stadiums. This couldn’t be better timed. I recommend a visit.
My fiancée is Moldovan. I took her to her first ever match in the form of their Euro qualifier with Albania. The national team were so bad that I reckon I could have played 😂
What stadiums you visited?
I have driven there from the UK three times. Love the place.
The Conferance league is the only likely way teams from the league of Ireland and teams from other smaller nations will be able to compete regularly in European football because they simply cant compete on a financial basis with the elite of Europe which is growing year on year.
Gwan Boh’s!
@@Marcas542 we are bohs🔴⚫️
@Abhirup Nath trick question! There is no “best” Irish club.
@Abhirup Nath Dundalk
Ah Alfie! Agreeing to the hipster tag I see!😂😂
lol
Embracing it
I mean he is an socialist hipster, if you have any doubt about that then you have not seen enough videos of him.
Alfie is an open football hipster, while Michael, The Irish Guy, is a closet one.
@@thejamesonthestreet nah, Michael seems like the sort of person who actually believes posts on pages like Benchwarmers or trollfootball or thefootballarena lol
The way I see it, if you're not running a billion dollar bank scam, you're not a real club owner.
All clubs are equal, well some clubs are more equal than others.
Me like curry
Shor is now living in Israel, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with Moldova, so I wouldn't expect him to see the inside of a jail cell anytime soon
Well, there is a chance of him being Prosecuted in Israel if Moldovan Prosecutor Genereal can send all the Evidence to Israel but Moldovan Prosecutor Genereal is Corrupt and has not made a sigle attempt to ask Israel Authorityies to prosecute Shor
That doesnt suprise anyone that he fled to israel
13:09 Maia Sandu is actually hugely praised in Romania as well. She's far better than any of Romania's politicians. Romanians have a very strange relationship with anti-Semitism, and by that I mean that many people just tend to brush it aside as long as someone's name pops up on the news or in a history book consistently enough. Another politician may have openly praised or stood by Antonescu, so this example actually feels very mild as a Romanian
People say the same as she did about Robbie Savage
Amazing video, Alfie. I'm from Romania and I knew about the team but nothing really about the owner ot scandal. Cheers
That’s because Ilan shor was a Mossad agent and they kept it out of the press worldwide
Interesting info,always good going for journeys to places we never thought of.Good job Alfie.
Ah, Milsami Orhei, the club that made history by bankrupting a country.
It was actually their owner Ilan shor, a Mossad agent, hence why they were able to keep it out of the press worldwide
Actually really looking forward to the conference league. Its a return to the Europe that had a certain mystique. Much as I like the CL and EL, that side has been lost. Why shouldn't smaller clubs have a chance to shine?
Irish teams actually have a chance of qualifying for something
They should have that chance instead of being effectively barred from Europe because they're not Big Money clubs and can't afford the top talent for lack of revenue. I like the whole idea of the Conference League. I've been gaining a greater appreciation for lower division and non-league football lately: greater diversity of teams, less predictable competitions and you don't end up seeing the same four of five sides in the cup finals every year. For these smaller clubs and leagues, the Conference is a chance for European competition they otherwise wouldn't have a hope of getting into, a chance for silverware they otherwise wouldn't have a hope of winning, opportunities for the players to be tested on an international stage they otherwise wouldn't get, and TV exposure they otherwise wouldn't ever get outside their own countries, all for being priced out of the reach of the Champions or Europa Leagues.
@@LordZontar you have hit the nail on the head rather superbly.
THANK YOU. People look down of conference league because they think of NBA, NFL.
The conference structure helps smaller teams have an opportunity to compete
@@LordZontar
Yes, the conference league structure is basically like NBA and NFL. That’s why I like it. It gives smaller clubs an opportunity.
Only found this channel recently but it's quickly becoming one of my go to CZcams channels. Love the videos you produce.
As always, a brilliant well-documented video.
Also, this is probably the only football youtube channel where I'll hear the name of Romeo Surdu
he was actually a decent football player scored some nice goals
As a local Moldovan i am flattered
I'm also a huge fan of the Conference League. As a Swede it's great to see more teams than Malmö FF from the Allsvenskan having a chance to play in Europe.
Ostersunds was good some years ago, Hammarby are they a good team?
@@bibartvivian3694 they are top4 in Sweden atm. Does that make them a good team? Not sure. They play some interesting football though. In the conference league play-off they play Basel which is going to be interesting.
I hate you for being a Malmö fan, beating Riga, I think two times in European competitions. Not really hate just annoyance
@@bolstein5636 I'm not a Malmö fan really just good for the domestic league. At least your team has a chance of qualifying :D
Well looks like everybody failed,except Malmo who are in Champions league
UEFA accidentally made something good.
dont think it was by accident lol
The Sir David Attenborough of football documentaries! Top stuff!!
I'm from Moldavia, all that he had described is true, so say thanks to God, that you had been borned in normal countries.
Hello, from Latvia. Sorry that 1 billion Euros ended up in a Latvian bank
Imagine we're freaking out at the 1 billion mark meanwhile psg owners:
They're trying mimic a fraction of our power
Just got back from Greece and got to see AEK Athens get knocked out by Velez Mostar there... was pretty cool. Think the tournament is kinda silly, but was awesome seeing the AEK fans go crazy over it and the Mostar players celebrate at the end of the penalty shootout...
I have nothing against AEK, in fact it's one o the Greek clubs I respect the most. It is however, extremely rare for Velež to even qualify for any European competition, I'd always root for them, regardless.
Alfie maybe a documentary on the original MLS?
Another amazing in depth work! Appreciate your hardwork 👍🏼
Bro I have to give it up to you. I love the content you distribute. Keep the good work going and thanks so much for your daily and weekly football journey. Viewing from 🇯🇲🇯🇲
One of the best channels on CZcams, discovered you a week ago. WHAT LUCK
ey... I'm Moldavian. Certainly didn't expect pictures of my hometown when clicking on this video. Thanks man!
Great video mate. I love these.
You did good research on the video, well done.
Always love watching your videos alfie 💙
Hi mate, was amazing to hear you support are from Hull, me too! You don’t have the towny accent most of us have! Keep up the great work
Amazing detailed video, as always!
6:08 "Shor showed shrewd management". Try saying that after six pints of Stella.
Content on fire as always, Alfie. Thank you, as always ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
love both your's and hitc's content mate
HITC's legit
true
Youre everywhere now
@@moumenrezaei1330 thanks for the love and support, dude
Quality video with insane levels of attention to detail
Alfie, thank you for making this video
These documentaries are brilliant
As to "A who's who of high-profile Moldovans" I am afraid I will need a bit more than that descriptor unfortunately. Great job as always Alfie!
Ah, the prestigious Europa Conference League! Watch out Paços de Ferreira and the mighty Larne, here we come! 😄🍻
I don't think you love us 😙, I think your track record on any kind of Spurs commentary shows that 😆. But this is "the people's channel", so you're bound to give the people what they want 😉...That said, I didn't think the Spurs quip was even remotely as bad as the comments made out. 😃🍻👍
Great work
Another cracking video well done sir
Day 5 of asking for "What happened to Livorno?"
Found the channel about 1 month ago love the content
Great videos, keep them up.
I have a good video idea that you could do. "Why are there so many former Premier League clubs in League One and League Two?" Love your content, keep up the good work.
Alfie repping us East Riding lot with constant morning fire videos
This was the best and most thought provoking thing I've seen for a while. I got out of the UK because of the way things were going, as did a lot of people, not just EU citizens, on a scale well beyond what is being widely reported there. I've seen an estimate of 1.3 million, which might have something in it and explain the current empty shelves and unharvested crops. However Moldova lost a third of its population? Wow! The exodus from the UK was/is on nothing like that scale. When I look at the UK and see the almost daily steps back towards the dark ages (the utterly pointless restoration of imperial weights and measures anyone?) I get depressed and angry, but it's nowhere near on the scale of what has happened in Moldova. I don't know whether to feel reassured and think the situation in the land of my birth is not so bad in the grand scheme of things or whether to look at the abyss that is Moldova currently and despair at how bad things can get without a turn of the corner being forced.
Not bad for a video which when I started watching it I assumed was all or mostly about football.
Great video as always,.
Delighted to see my local club Bohemians on here, I was at the PAOK game and the atmosphere was electric.
Hitc sevens and DW are the most underrated football channels
6:09 "Shaw(sp) showed shrewd management..." Respect if you got that tongue twister down in one take Alfie 😂
His name is Илан Шор (Ilan Shor). Alfie's accent makes it sound like Shaw which I find amusing. :)
@@8wayz2shine lol, yeah I figured it was probably spelled differently from how he was pronouncing it.
It's easier if you put on a Sean Connery accent.
@@farhadchaudhry 🤣🤣🤣 good one
Somebody Let "Fat Tony" know they can recruit another member of the "Legitimate Businessmen's Club" 17:30 in the Simpsons
Fantastic video. What happened to Panathinaikos?
God i love this channel 🤣🙆♂️
When Alfie finally disappears from making videos on corrupt politicians, oligarchs, clubs owners and the likes, it may be very difficult to locate him seeing as he would have been siphoned through various shell companies around Europe, middle east and Asia 🥺🥺
Considering how corrupt London is, it wouldn't be that hard to find traces via suspect Companies House filings and other methods of shell company spotting.
Thanks for a interesting, funny and frustrating video
All the original european cup teams or champions league teams, where are they now?
He did it last week👍
czcams.com/video/1u6hG2q_WOo/video.html
The puns are only getting better.
No
I like that Shor’s surname translates to “bull” in Hebrew and he actually was born in Israel
Lol
It also translates to 'pig skin' in romanian, so yeah, pretty fitting
@@bravoisteal you are referring to him being a millionaire right?
Never knew you were a city fan, great escape was my favourite season… Gary Brabin and Joyce played like men possessed… we don’t honour Warren like we should. I miss the Scarborough games too!
As a Romanian who still considers Moldova as stolen land, this has been a brilliant documentary.
Hats off, thank you!
Moldova is a part of romania
@@KR-mm4el Don't be a smart ass, you know exactly what I mean.
Basarabia aka Republic of Moldova, is stolen land.
Better now?
@@danny9114 i am saying that moldova should be a part of romania wtf are you on
Stolen by whom, Moldavians? Yeah, I guess we stole our own land from Romania by living there... On behalf of our nation, I apologize for our existence and wish for our disappearance from this world, so that Romanians such as yourself can enjoy the land that has been so deviously pilfered from you.
@@Andmunko There we go, the hardcorest Moldavian type of all, the Moldavian from Stefan cel Mare himself that sees no other Territory as Moldova except RM + Moldova from Romania as part of it as well, lol.
That early 20 and 21st century propaganda from USRR really has an effect of you until today, you poor fucks.
Can you do a video about South East Asian football????
Don’t get me wrong I enjoy most the videos of this channel but these style ones are spectacular
@ 1:20 there’s a Strasbourg flag among the Hull City flags, is there some sort of supporter relationship between our clubs?
Could I get some opinions on this. I’m Australian and the first football fan in my family. When I was getting into football we had a foreign exchange student from Munich who got me into supporting Bayern. This was at a young age and I’ve only started watching the games over the last few years. It comes today when I’ve became more passionate about Australian football that I’ve learned about the likes of Harry Kewell and Viduka and how good they were at Leeds and it has made me fallen in love with the club. Is it plastic to switch?
The Romanian pronounciation you have is like those bad "Engrish" H*llywood accents + strangling a cat. I love it.
Permanent marker is preferable to city's alarm clock numbers.
Uefa have basically brought back the cup winners cup...that was Europe's 3rd cup back in the 90's
I always felt the UEFA cup was the 3rd competition. As with the European Cup you needed to win the Cup to qualify for the CWC. UEFA Cup was for losers not winners and started well after the CWC.
@@jonkernow4477 I know. Mr Adaptive isn't too bright is he.😂
Pls do a video on the history of the Balon'dor
I'm proud of myself that I actually knew who Ilhan Sor was before this video
Says "any how..." Puts a pic of Eddie Howe. That was gold
Fun fact: The Shor party is now at almost 20% in Moldovan polls which is insane.
I'm curious now, what stadium is the one built with old tin cans?
Your pronunciation of Moldavian clubs and cites kills me😂😂 They pronunced totally different in romanian
P.S. As a side note, not the club ruined the country that was already struguling but the currupt politicians that run the country and it just happend that one of them owned that club
a fost scris asa doar pt a atrage mai multe vizualizari in genul titlurilor exagerate si scoase din context din ziare spre exemplu
Isle of Man XI would be fun to do
0:39 No obscure team, it was Rubin Kazań, who lost their numbers on t-shirts, they were playing against our polish Raków Częstochowa :O
"SOR SHOWED SHREWD" , did you you get that in one take? Interesting, as usual I learned something.
I’ve been saying this for years. A conference league structure can benefit smaller teams against top club with financial advantage to offer top players larger contracts. The NBA, NFL, MLS is the best example.
People look down on it for no reason.
So i have a question: Do you like competition? Do you like to see smaller clubs have an opportunity to compete on a level playing field with the top teams?
If competition is what’s good for football, if competition is entertaining, then conference league is the structure.
When are we getting that video on UCL champions that didn't win local league.?
Thanks
Eddie Howe he at Celtic yet? Or is it post-a-note-ich? + his kindle!
Lol that draw with AS Roma standing out like a sore thumb
My brother and to some extent I support Hammarby, a first division Swedish team, as Sweden doesn't have a big league before this change the team that won the Swedish league only got a qualification playoff place to the Champions League and 2nd and 3rd place got qualification playoff to the Europa League, but now 2nd, 3rd, and Swedish cup winner get Europa Conference league now. The Swedish teams usually don't go far in the Europa League if they even qualify, so the Europa conference league gives smaller teams a chance to win a European competition.
For some reason the number 109 keeps popping into my head.
Video topic idea here:
Have a look at the ongoing legal battle between former Premier League players Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov, and the current management of the Bulgarian Football Union, which has been accused largely of being incompetent, corrupt on a massive scale for the last 15 years and on resulting in the devastating state of the sport in the country.
I forgot I was watching a football video half way through
Do you mind taking a look at Indonesian Football? You might find something interesting
I watch Bradford City in their one brief encounter with European football when they played at RKC Waalwijk
From what I have seen, it appears to be only fans from England who are looking down on the Europa Conference League, with a fair amount of that involving mocking Tottenham for their place in it. Granted, I dont often engage with fans from the other major European leagues, but overall it does appear that even the semi-large leagues and teams of Europe are taking it seriously and giving it the respect it deserves.
It's just a new inter toto Cup really. Probably won't be around for long. But I think it's a good idea though, gives the smaller teams a bit of exposure and some extra revenue.
Still can't believe we lost to Bohemian
Ok we won, live to die another day
I have to admit that I didn't even know where Moldova was before I watched this video. If only they taught geography, politics and business in schools like this is presented here