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Bernie Madoff – His Life And Crimes – part II
| CNBC | At the height of the Great Recession, Bernie Madoff confessed to running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history – a $65 billion fraud that left thousands of victims financially shattered. Madoff’s crimes went undetected for years, raising…
- 2021
- Ponzi scheme
Bernie Madoff – His Life And Crimes – part I
| CNBC | At the height of the Great Recession, Bernie Madoff confessed to running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history – a $65 billion fraud that left thousands of victims financially shattered. Madoff’s crimes went undetected for years, raising…
- 2021
- Ponzi scheme
Rajat Gupta on rebuilding his life nearly seven years after insider trading conviction
| CNBC | CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interviews Rajat Gupta, who served 19 months in prison on federal insider trading charges. This is his first interview since being released from prison in 2016.
- 2019
- Insider trading
Insider Trading And Congress: How Lawmakers Get Rich From The Stock Market
| CNBC | In spring 2020, four U.S. senators faced accusations of using insider knowledge about the coronavirus crisis to sell off hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock. A couple of months later, the investigations into senators Kelly Loeffler…
- 2020
- Insider trading
Why Amazon Has So Many Counterfeit Goods
| CNBC | Seizures of counterfeit products at U.S. borders have increased 10-fold over the past two decades as e-commerce sales have boomed. The total value of seized goods – if they had been real – reached nearly $1.4 billion…
- 2020
- Counterfeit
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana
| The Guardian | Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country’s small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life…
- 2013
- Business ethics
Russia’s Madagascar Election Gamble
| BBC | A BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed that at least six candidates were offered money by Russians in the lead up to last year’s presidential elections in Madagascar. The presence of Russian political strategists with close ties…
- 2019
- Corruption, Bribery
Stealing from the Sick
| BBC | Everyone in Uganda is entitled to free medicine to combat killer diseases like malaria. Despite Government efforts to improve access to essential medicines, a significant number of people have to use private facilities because of frequent stockouts….
- 2017
- Deficient government, Bribery
Imported for my body: The African women trafficked to India for sex
| BBC | BBC Africa Eye uncovered an illegal network that lures women to India from Africa, where they are then forced into sex work to satisfy the demands of the many African men living in Delhi. The women are…
The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia
| BBC | The rosewood tree is one of the most trafficked species on earth. When it’s cut it bleeds a blood-red sap. Having exhausted stocks elsewhere, Chinese traders have turned to West Africa, especially southern Senegal, where trees are…
- 2020
- Environmental Crime