Al Jazeera
BR Shetty and the Missing Millions
| Al Jazeera | This is a story of a financial scandal, of fortunes won and lost and political collusion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that goes right to the heart of Emirati business and politics. At the centre…
Spy Merchants
| Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit enters the secretive world of the surveillance industry. Spy Merchants reveals for the first time how highly-invasive spyware, which can capture the electronic communications of a town, can be purchased in a…
- 2017
- Espionage, Cybercrime
The Spy in Your Phone
| Al Jazeera | In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used….
- 2021
- Espionage, Cybercrime
Diplomats for Sale
| Al Jazeera | 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. Al Jazeera exposes two prime ministers who…
- 2019
- Business ethics
The Cyprus Papers Undercover
| Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes how a convicted criminal might obtain a European passport in Cyprus – for the right price. Undercover reporters reveal a two-track citizenship by investment scheme, where “problematic” applicants pay more money….
- 2020
- Deficient government
Anatomy of a Bribe
| Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit secretly films officials in Namibia demanding cash in exchange for political favours. It’s a story of how foreign companies plunder Africa’s natural resources. Using confidential documents provided to Al Jazeera by Wikileaks,…
- 2019
- Bribery, Corruption
Stealing paradise
| Al Jazeera | AJ’s Investigative Unit has uncovered corruption in the Maldives. Secretly filmed interviews describe how men on mopeds carried millions in cash to the Maldives’ political elite. President Abdulla Yameen and his former deputy, Ahmed Adeeb, are…
- 2016
- Corruption
Is Dubai a money-laundering hub?
| Al Jazeera | With its skyscrapers, luxury villas, and a high concentration of millionaires and billionaires, Dubai’s rise to global city and business hub captured the world’s attention.
- 2018
- Money Laundering
Football’s wall of silence
| Al Jazeera | Former youth football coach Barry Bennell, one of the top talent spotters in Britain with ties to major clubs like Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra, spent his days coaching children and his nights abusing them. Al…
- 2018
- Sexual misconduct, Power abuse