HSBC Fires Employees, Apologizes for Mock ISIS Beheading Video
The banking giant distances itself from bizarre, disgusting stunt.
These days, big banks have plenty of PR problems thanks to their well-deserved reputations of taking risks with the public’s money and getting golden parachutes after tanking the economy.
No exception to the rule, international banking giant HSBC has recently been dodging bad press over a money laundering scandal. But today, the company is taking heat for something far more bizarre.
Yesterday, British newspaper The Sun shared a video online, reporting that it had been filmed at an HSBC corporate team-building event and posted by its creators on Instagram before being subsequently deleted.
In the frighteningly familiar scene, a man in an orange jumpsuit kneels, while five men in black balaclavas stand behind him, one of whom is holding a coat hanger as a mock knife over the faux victim’s head.
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