THE MACHINE
The rise and fall of an African at the heart of global capitalism.
The Ghanaian Kweku Adoboli was the “golden boy” of UBS Bank London. But belonging to the West came at a cost he never saw coming.
As long as the young trader was making hundreds of millions in profits for the major Swiss bank, he was celebrated as a model employee and his promotion to the management ranks was planned.
The film re-enacts his London trial using the original court transcripts. A trial that raises more questions than it answers.
Promised everything, deported with nothing.