BBC
Cashing in on Covid: Ghana hospital workers sell PPE for personal profit
| BBC | More than 2,000 medical workers in Ghana have been infected by coronavirus since the outbreak began. The country has faced a severe lack of essential protective equipment like face shields, masks and suits. Our investigation with Anas…
The Baby Stealers
| BBC | A year long investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered damning evidence of a thriving underground network in Kenya that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. The secretive and highly lucrative trade…
- 2020
- Human trafficking, Power abuse
Profits before Pupils?
| BBC Panorama | More than 7,000 schools in England have been turned into academies and are now run by private trusts. The people in charge are not supposed to profit from children’s education, but what’s to stop them from…
- 2018
- Business ethics, Power abuse
The Universal Credit Crisis
| BBC Panorama | As the government’s controversial new benefits system, universal credit, is rolled out, Panorama is with families as they struggle with their claims. The programme follows one council as it deals with mounting rent arrears and tenants…
Killed in Hospital
| BBC Panorama | An official inquiry has found that more than 450 patients had their lives cut short at an NHS hospital. Many were given fatal doses of painkillers even though they were not terminally ill and had only…
Betraying the Game: Anas Aremeyaw Anas investigates football in Africa
| BBC | Almost one hundred football officials across West Africa and Kenya have been caught on camera accepting cash in a sting operation. It’s part of a two-year long undercover investigation by controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. BBC…
- 2018
- Bribery, Match fixing
The Secret Bribes of Big Tobacco
| BBC | A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of bribery at one of the UK’s biggest companies. Panorama found British American Tobacco (BAT) illegally paid politicians and civil servants in countries in East Africa. The payments were revealed when…
- 2015
- Bribery
The $10 Billion Energy Scandal
| BBC | BP agreed to pay around $10bn (£8bn) to a businessman involved in a suspicious energy deal. The energy giant bought Frank Timis’ stake in a gas field off the coast of Senegal for $250 million in 2017….
- 2019
- Bribery
Rhinos: Killing & Corruption
| BBC | Alastair Leithead investigates the alleged links between the illegal rhino horn trade and corruption in Zululand’s courts and its national parks.
Is Crowd1 running a pyramid scheme? – How does a pyramid scheme work?
| BBC | Crowd1 presents itself as a high-tech crowd marketing business. It promises significant returns to its members. To start making money with Crowd1, a person needs to buy an ‘education package’ directly from the company. So is Crowd1…
- 2020
- Pyramid scheme