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True Cover Ups

True Cover Ups

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True cover ups are rarely about the original crime. The spill, the defect, the accident: those are survivable. It is the meeting afterward, where powerful people decide the public must never know, that turns a mistake into a conspiracy. This show tells the true stories of cover ups.

Each episode reconstructs one cover up in full, cinematic detail: the event that should have been headline news, the machinery that buried it, the whistleblowers ignored, threatened, or worse, and the crack through which the truth finally escaped. No host chatting between clips, no panel trading theories. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from declassified files, court records, and the testimony of people who refused to stay quiet.

You will uncover cover ups where corporations shipped products they knew would kill, agencies rewrote reports while families begged for answers, and entire disasters were reclassified into footnotes. Some episodes follow the cover up in real time; others follow the decades-long fight to force the documents into daylight. All of them treat cover ups as what they really are: a second crime, committed in meeting rooms.

If you are drawn to true cover ups told with documents instead of speculation, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained case. Subscribe now so the next of these cover ups lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
Episodes
  • The bank document that shows Handelsbanken registered his shares

    The bank document that shows Handelsbanken registered his shares
    22 Oct 2026
    A corporate scandal rocks Sweden as a self-made immigrant's empire collapses, but a hidden bank document suggests a deeper conspiracy.

    The bank document that shows Handelsbanken registered his shares

    This episode delves into the rise and fall of Refaat El-Sayed and the Fermenta company, exploring the official narrative of fraud versus a crucial document that challenges the accepted truth. What really led to one of Sweden's biggest corporate scandals?

    Person: Refaat El-Sayed
    Date: January 8, 1986
    Location: Sweden
    Company: Fermenta
    Bank: Handelsbanken

    - Refaat El-Sayed, an Egyptian immigrant, arrived in Sweden in 1966 with limited Swedish and worked as a laboratory assistant.
    - He acquired 29 patents in applied microbiological processes and water purification, which were still registered under his name.
    - In 1981, El-Sayed borrowed one million kronor from Handelsbanken to buy the struggling Astra subsidiary, Fermenta, and turned it into a profitable company.
    - By January 1986, Fermenta's stock peaked at 325 kronor per share, and El-Sayed was named "Swede of the Year" by the television program Rapport.
    - On January 8, 1986, El-Sayed announced a deal with Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, CEO of Volvo, to exchange stakes for a 20% share in Fermenta.

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    19 min
  • The suitcase survived the fire - and the official story didn't explain why

    The suitcase survived the fire - and the official story didn't explain why
    22 Oct 2026
    A leather suitcase in the ashes of a Ferriday shoe shop and its burned owner name no killers - what really happened that night in Ferriday, Louisiana?

    The suitcase survived the fire - and the official story didn't explain why

    In this episode, we follow the case of Frank Morris and the unexplained detail that redirects an entire investigation: a scorched-but-intact suitcase found amid a blaze that killed a local shopkeeper. We trace the scene, the interviews, and the local forces that shaped the inquiry - and ask how one small object reframes the whole story.

    Person: Frank Morris
    Location: Ferriday, Louisiana
    Date: December 10, 1964
    Event: Arson of Frank's Shoe Service
    Case: FBI investigations (closed 1965; records continued; formal closure 2016)

    - A fire destroyed Frank Morris and his shop while leaving a leather suitcase with an unbroken bourbon bottle and unburned newspapers inside.
    - Morris escaped the initial flames, was interviewed three times by federal agents, described two white men outside, then lapsed into a coma and died four days later.
    - A confidential informant recorded a sequence: E.D. Morace asked Klan members to beat "Old Frank," then called back to cancel - and the next night the shop burned.
    - Between 1964 and 1967, fourteen Black men were murdered in the river corridor around Concordia Parish; cases were treated separately rather than as a pattern.
    - Four primary suspects were questioned over decades across three FBI investigations, no one was charged, and local authorities declined to take over the matter.

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    18 min
  • The Central Bank Rejection That Proved Master Was Never Real

    The Central Bank Rejection That Proved Master Was Never Real
    21 Oct 2026
    Federal agents stop a private jet on a runway, finding a bank owner fleeing to Malta amidst a banking collapse. This financial fraud reveals a deep network of corruption.

    The Central Bank Rejection That Proved Master Was Never Real

    This episode explores the collapse of Banco Master, a Brazilian bank whose alleged fraud led to $2.2 billion missing and 1.6 million people losing their investments. It delves into the systemic corruption that allowed this financial crime to unfold over years.

    Person: Daniel Vorcaro
    Date: November 17, 2025
    Location: Brasília's international airport
    Event: Largest bank fraud in Brazil's history
    Amount: $2.2 billion

    - Daniel Vorcaro, majority shareholder of Banco Master, was stopped on a private jet bound for Malta.
    - The bank's collapse, involving $2.2 billion and 1.6 million victims, implicated supreme court justices, senators, and ex-presidents.
    - Banco Master operated as a pyramid scheme, using new deposits to pay older investors, with overvalued or nonexistent collateral.
    - Federal agents targeted Paulo Sérgio Neves de Souza, a former supervisory director at the Banco Central, and Belline Santana for institutional corruption.
    - The Banco Central rejected the acquisition of Master in September 2025, two months before Vorcaro's attempted flight.

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    21 min
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