The Minister’s Millions

In the midst of a historic housing crisis, a tip came into the AJ I-Unit that a high-ranking politician from Bangladesh might be one the largest private landlords in the UK. The team set about chasing down the information; what’s true, what's not and how this story helped explain why millions of regular people can’t afford to buy.

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All the Prime Minister’s Men

All the Prime Minister’s Men is a gripping, true-crime story of a high-level coverup happening right now in Bangladesh. Through undercover recordings, confessional interviews, historical analysis and primary source documents, Al Jazeera Investigates exposes the corrupt and ongoing relationship between a criminal gang of brothers and the country’s leader. It’s a relationship that’s lasted more than 30 years.

Part One begins with a murder on the streets of the capital of Dhaka.

Producer: Kevin Hirten

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Gold Mafia

The I-Unit goes undercover to expose some of Africa’s biggest gold smugglers and money launderers.

We take you inside a scheme to wash millions of dollars by trading gold from Southern Africa to the Middle East and back again.

Find out why gold is the key that unlocks it all.

Producer: Kevin Hirten

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The Labour Files

‘The Labour Files’ is a four-part podcast series, examining a vicious, internal conflict within Britain’s Labour party as members of the party’s bureaucracy sought to portray supporters of their former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, as racist and anti-Semitic.

The series explains how a massive leak of documents from within the Labour party, obtained by the Investigative Unit, shows that the smear campaign against Corbyn involved spying, dirty tricks, the expulsion from the party of Corbyn’s supporters.

Producer: Kevin Hirten

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