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Assignment: Pandora Papers: On the trail of dirty money

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Pandora Papers: On the trail of dirty money

07/10/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Assignment, Pandora Papers: On the trail of dirty money

How money made from the 'world's biggest bribery scandal' ended up in UK property

Using a cache of leaked offshore documents, Felicity Hannah follows an international trail of money tainted by corruption, to find out how it ended up in UK property investments.

Amongst the millions of documents released in the ‘Pandora Papers’ leak of offshore financial information are a number of documents that one British Iranian family business would rather have remained hidden. In this investigation Assignment follows the trail of millions of dollars tainted by bribery and corruption. Piecing together key documents from the leak reveals how earnings from Unaoil – a company involved in winning oil and gas contracts through bribery in the Middle East - were invested into UK property.
 
Why does the UK remain a go-to destination for some of the world’s most tainted money? And why does it take a leak for the truth to be revealed about who’s really invested in some of the country’s prime property?
 
 
Reporter: Felicity Hannah 
Producer: Anna Meisel and Kate West
Editor: Gail Champion

(Image: Pandora Papers illustration. Credit: BBC)

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