Al Jazeera's I-Unit discovers a series of gangs of gold smugglers, money launderers and corrupt individuals based in Zimbabwe making hundreds of million dollar profits in Southern Africa stealing from those nations.
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Archives for corruption
All the Prime Minister’s Men
Using google's streetview, older archive and the detailed testimony of the victim himself we were able to remodel the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh which provided the scene for a brutal murder of a young political activist
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Anatomy of a Bribe
This is a story of how foreign companies plunder Africa’s natural resources. Using confidential documents provided to Al Jazeera by Wikileaks, “Anatomy of a Bribe” exposes the government ministers and public officials willing to sell off Namibia’s assets in return for millions of dollars in bribes. Exclusive testimony from a whistleblower who worked for Samherji, Iceland’s largest fishing company reveals that his employers instructed him to bribe ministers and even the president in return for fishing rights worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Diplomats for Sale
How much would you pay for diplomatic immunity? The trade in Caribbean diplomatic passports has become a magnet for wealthy foreigners, corrupt businessmen and criminals from around the world. Here we use 50's & 60's styling for the graphics & animation to help reveal this bizarre trade in Diplomatic passports.
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Stealing Paradise – An Aljazeera Investigation
Al Jazeera investigates the islands of Maldives and finds that behind the idyllic destination that attracts so many honeymooners lies endemic corruption. Evidence of this dark side was uncovered on 10GB of data extracted from the former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s mobile phone. Our motion graphics were used throughout to detail the SMS conversations, explain how the embezzling works, provide profiles of our main characters and generally to add some stylish welding of the storyline. See evidence below or watch the full documentary here.
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