Book Of Sins Tareque Laskar

Book of Sins, the narrative podcast about the economics of scams returns with a new season, this time focusing on a scandal that shook the world of global finance and banking - the LIBOR scam. First episode coming soon.

As the investigations wind down and legal battles continue, there are no neat resolution to the loose threads in the Harshad Mehta saga, but the jolt of 1992 may have left one lasting mark as we discover in the season 1 finale.

As Harshad Mehta is arrested for his stock market misdeeds, new strands of the scam break (and we meet more shady players), revealing that the scandal is embedded deep into India’s financial sector.

As the Harshad Mehta scam comes to light, investigators and bank officials scramble to understand how exactly had the Big Bull been able to siphon money out of the banking system into the stock markets and soon, more scam and skulduggery surface.

Harshad Mehta establishes himself as an influential figure in the stock market using the money market as a springboard as the equity and banking sectors collide in a nefarious dalliance.

In the 1980s an underdeveloped and opaque Indian capital market is ripe to be gamed for abnormal gains, and one man is putting a mega plan in motion to do just that.