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really special things about working for our desire is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very true to the body but to get it because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people are believed to tell the real story so i'll just mend it used to do the work in-depth journalism we don't hear in cuba good audiences across the globe. hello i'm maryam namazie in london harry a top stories on al-jazeera nigeria has started flying thousands of its citizens home from libya where they've been trapped in slavery like conditions just large numbers of nigerians are stuck in libya had been trying to cross to italy by sea but was stopped by local on factions and libya's coast guard and now facing die
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conditions and abuse and i cheering government says the fights will continue for as long as they need to where libya is a portal to the mediterranean and on to europe for refugees and migrants from africa and the middle east there are forty three thousand refugees and asylum seekers registered with the un refugee agency in libya the highest number come from nigeria nearly seventeen and a half thousand people followed by syria with sixteen and a half thousand and then given the and ivory coast up to ninety percent of people crossing the mediterranean sea to europe depart from libya most travelling from east africa arrive through sudan those coming from central africa travel through new jet while the route from west africa goes through algeria and i jaring government has found it difficult to tell exactly how many people are in need of help. our president has made available all the resources necessary but the bluff whatever it is and i couldn't move out of the lead him to
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repatriate all the nigerians here mr added gaffer the nigerian and who do you know when we came we were working around a figure of about five thousand five hundred. good unarmored one hundred assess how other comes along comes the left me at martin but the question of numbers. has become a bit problematic and that address has been hearing some of the migrant stories he filed this report for us from port harcourt. well basically patrician part of the nigerian government started after reports of. african african migrants in libya are being sold on the slave market and of course put to put in slave like conditions and this doesn't even stop at those in the hands of. human smugglers in libya but also in detention camps official and unofficial detention camps of course
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libya we met some of them over the course of four or five days in libya today more than eight hundred. what dropped at the airport in tripoli to hold on their way home the initial plight of five hundred migrants transit migrants came into port harcourt this evening and we spoke to a lot of people on that flight and they all have the same story to tell most of them are being exploited sexually physically and some of them i've been coaching and the situation among them is that they keep. even some of the migrants communicate migrant camembert community community members their own sort of stealing or kidnapping some of these migrants and forcing their parents or relations back home to pay ransom before they release the man immediately one person is released another person takes over and demand ransom so it's a vicious cycle if you don't pay up they torture you and you go through several systemic abuses inside those detention camps and even the guest houses set up by
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the human smugglers across libya. and the syrian city of idlib has killed twenty five people even more have been injured in the city which is under the control of. the syrian observatory for human rights says the explosion appeared to target the headquarters of an opposition faction lead time to place the syrian government forces and their allies continue to advance to recapture from the rebels it's calls thousands of civilians to flee to was the border with turkey and freezing winter conditions in the largest remaining rebel held territory in syria. the former white house chief strategist steve bannon is trying to make amends with the us president he reaffirmed his support for donald trump in a statement after becoming the main source for a damaging book about trump's presidency trump continues to denounce the fire and fury book as lies. but you are now up to date with all of our top stories much more
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coming up for in about twenty five minutes that's when i'll be back after al-jazeera investigations the only god which is next. ah. the president on the run the city of corruption was amazing. billions stolen al-jazeera is investigative unit has obtained a cache of secret files sounds like an agreement between criminal busts if i decide it with your blood and nation roll but with the help of western banks. to use london as a safe haven it's a kind of business and we reveal how ukraine is being robbed for a second time under the nose of the old storage fees we simply didn't have
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confirmation and this looks like confirmation the proceeds go to an oligarch in hiding amount fueling a war forged by russian separatists in ukraine just shows the way these guys do business the genius of it read your first real results and rather than them yeah of how much. information you presented as what i call the pipe from which dirty money from russia ukraine and other countries all flow through. the south hopefully these kind of stuff might down in his knowledge and pull chains of says the kings. during the uprising kiev's musicians headed to independence square alongside thousands of protesters among them was all for trade tatiana's
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a chip star of the film on the phone book called the pull up there in the feeling you. get a little while that they all laugh so much oh yeah the euro lost their actual nationality for me from the case chin the cute kid had no national it's more my book. i. think the president had refused to sign an agreement to bring ukraine closer to europe the goal of revolution was not only striving towards the e.u. it god was also to how the set play and the fair rules of the game and the evolution was against corruption. the three months kiev's independence square became a battlefield over a hundred people lost their lives. i found then one february night ukraine's president began to move house. i president
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viktor yushchenko vege fled his country with help from russian special forces he was flown by helicopter to moscow i i was overly complex and the wishful will behappen that they are for that in the subash little for launching i. doubt the tatiana ukraine's leaders like villains in a comic opera. will cry in the risky pistols in the uk on their. to fuck to show. that they should run away from the country anti ukrainian treasury and its accounts had a few thousand dollars so the point is that entire treasury was dropped. thanks.
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soon after the revolution ukraine's people discovered how their president had been living. of socialism isn't that iraq is in the vision looking down to dover to. the extent the sort of absurdity of corruption is amazing it's a six story log cabin i think the biggest loan company in the world set in the amazing est. if you can award it you know going to get on a day. was the. last. official box store. i had a question. in the. only little bit of bush. previously the palace was he didn't from view even on satellite maps. but now
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a nationalist group runs guy did tools of this monument to corruption. mr booker a city of ny you won this four dollars when the hollywood for a liver see you received program this was sudden it was all done yet the month of the month business was up what they lived. in the ninos to make new stuff from above them by just this wattles keep those store like you need to educate other than live nor this is just so it seems so nobody. stanley. scorpios daughter for drug. she said do we. get that this. it does not. pay them is a. new study called in as a muslim have sex which was sort of. course and then but this it you do they but of course we're not a what. of the team or. no men that are. super cute yet the
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document of reported suppose a decision but. the power is still god's a secrecy them with the name of its real owner. so within the v.a. q young of which are in a coma she did not keep money on his name even if she's main homes where she spent the last years of she's life in ukraine it was registered on the charity fund not on the in goshen stuff behind the charity the dizzying web of companies based in tax havens around the world.
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i'm will jordan i've come to kiev ukrainian capital. al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained a drive filled with hundreds of documents about yana covert his network. bank statements contracts and e-mails from twenty eleven through the revolution until twenty fifteen. they place viktor yushchenko vage the ultimate eastern european all agog at the helm of a global corruption network. this investigation is about how that network still operates today and through one crooked contract we see how all the dogs do business often with the unwitting assistance of western banks we've called it the quick pace deal. unbelievable. it sounds like an agreement between criminal busts it kind of side it was your blood that is.
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by most estimates yet a code which stole billions ukrainian investigators traced and froze one point five billion a cyprus based company called quick pace limited told one hundred sixty million dollars of that in cash and forms but prosecutors froze this money because it's stolen it can't be legally bought nor sold them straight it's just it's the point of this is attached to a country that. as a lawyer i read this document or that or said that it's not illegal i wouldn't expect any court to enforce chalk it. just shows the. way these guys do business i mean the genius of it really. the quick pace deal involves two all agog sigrid to buy the company and its one hundred sixty million in frozen assets from a mysterious. the contract is unsigned but our evidence indicates the deal went
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ahead they treat quick pace like buying a bankrupt company and agree a knock down price of just thirty million dollars. they throw in a private jets as part of the payment this is really interesting discovery this is distressed debt basically you get these companies in the city of london who if someone refused to pay their debt they buy it for you know twenty pay on the pound and then do their utmost to get it back and make a profit on it. the oligarchs would make a clean up one hundred thirty million dollars profit they believe they can unfreeze the assets or as they call it remove the arrest and pocket the money. they just need to persuade a judge to lift the freeze. and . if you have influence over the course which you do in a corrupt jurisdiction like ukraine you can then use that influence to try and
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release the assets and make your money out of it. as a majority of judges you claim they are themselves the corruption they asked those accorded to garner quick out of watch. we've got that evidence that establishes which all of dogs are trying to make illicit profits from the quick pace deal. as we've shown this to investigators including john benton the former head of the international corruption unit at britain's national crime agency these are really really complex investigations you've got to go through thousands and thousands and thousands. options it's following the money and working out essentially the route the money takes. it appears the quick pace limited was part of a massive embezzlement and money laundering network under the yana covert regime.
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is it legal to be trading frozen assets it's very planning for them moving they say a criminal offense the whole idea is are frozen yes exist think it's the proceeds of crime it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place you know put in a cache in the getaway car yet. all documents revealed by one in the quick face deal is alexander i want to shankar who operates behind offshore company fastow trading limited fuel typical ukrainian oligarch. oligarchy is a term that most people didn't know twenty years ago that's kind of come out of the russian system that of the russian privatization program these are extremely rich people. just with the old
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enough horses is a flamboyant oligarchy like spending money on expensive things like the old. he sponsored the miss ukraine contest and partied with the stars coming around us and paris hilton john claude van damme. a nation coach unlike a lot of ukrainians made money in the gas business. and. i started to produce. in ukraine actually at the. biggest company that too was sold. three years ago. oana shankar was seeking asylum in europe and agreed to be interviewed because he believed it would help clear his name but first we didn't say that we knew about the secret quick pace deal he was happy to talk about his famous friends. you know donald trump
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yeah she's doing of course competition in a niche also she was new on all of this compassed miss universe can in one of these and most men can do a very good relationship was. documented reveals by a two in the quick pace deal pavel folks his company which is to international incorporated. is a real estate tycoon who's featured in a russian business program. seem to combine you must see to see mean. she's not going to teach could get by sure thing is in lost on the easy. folks promotes a hard man image you know all the boom boom boom the food in the world over. like by a one folks is friends with now u.s.
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president donald trump has negotiated with him several times since two thousand and four but never completed a deal to build a trump hotel in moscow. president putin has all meant folks for his contribution to the russian economy focus on several prestigious properties in the russian capital. he built this complex in partnership with the powerful son in law a former russian president boris yeltsin. another parno was a cosmic businessman latest sentenced to jail over a multi-billion dollar fraud. is a tough boss in. the ocean you know that you were to lose lose you can go to them do it and won't go to cuba noble i'm going to get you for. hear the whistle go to do good initial push from the good doc i never quit in it. which you describe because if i don't do this or liquid it. mr and mrs fox publish
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social media snaps with a high profile jeweler and his wife. jacob arab it was jailed for two years in two thousand and eight in a us money laundering case. folks socializes with influential politicians a russian m.p. from president putin's party now a senior banker the mayor of ukraine's second city kharkiv left in a wheelchair after a mafia style assassination attempt. was interesting about him is that the extent to which it shows that the separation between ukraine and russia can be a bit skin-deep the elites of both ukraine and russia for that is basically the same country the money flows backwards and forwards the business deals going backwards and forwards. a recent leak of offshore company documents the panama papers establishes folks at the helm of
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a huge global business empire. it begins with his offshore company dorchester international incorporated registered instead kitson eavis. it has holdings in companies all over the globe in directly in golden eagle trust in new jersey. owned by billionaire v.j. maleo today facing extradition to india on fraud charges which he denies another link mining in tanzania and cameroon to palm oil billionaires in malaysia even state run pharmaceuticals in cuba where they all operate as a kind of transnational clan have their lawyers and sundress that have their money enough in some. a national structure which they've created since the fall of the soviet union which is very very resilient and very hard to penetrate. since the collapse of the soviet union a quarter century ago ukraine's been coached between russia and the west. most of
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the twenty fourteen revolution a pro western governments been in place. really looks launched a war on corruption fooled by a national anti corruption bureau built on american and european money. but it may have still mobile made up and yet. this indian also thought. that in the moment it got the funding to move there was the bureau's well known for arresting low level judges and civil servants and counting out that cash on camera . but it hasn't got any high level convictions suppose to be able to. put in the. deed to compose it shows that he was or wasn't his motion which was put to it in the boarding was given in doing which in the shamus of paternity. it appears that the revolution that toppled yana cove it did not remove the oligarchs
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who served him across the pond in modoc both of shows of the process that would wish to post. it but the cost to put i'm going to do this and this. but i had so clean skin and you said that but it was not suppose she'd look. at the four. by a one in the quick pace deal alexander i want to show is on the run in western europe with his riches. the ukraine government says he swindled them out of a one hundred million dollars on a gas deal want to go says the president told him to bribe m.p.'s and has now turned against him. more to do no quick. and that's why. now in europe. actually these cases political motivation case. when you say you're against
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corruption there but you pay bribes you've been corrupt or i've been told corrupt i did just so actually what the president say and in the whole country. that is not the other way there is a law that we. want to go is the anti corruption bureau's most wanted fugitive. they're hunting him for the gas window. they raided his office in march twenty sixth dean even had his mother arrested in madrid during that raid we understand they picked up a copy of our document the quick pace deal. despite this they seem to be doing little to bring the oligarchs involved to justice. misters so this is can businessmen a foursome who could get it to some. over all of the corners of the. justice then you would do it. for you mrs and i'm doing what it is to. buy it to
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have all folks a man whose business empire spans the globe. retraced some of his property assets. mrs fox is a social media star regularly in london the photographer always takes pictures in the same place the market belgravia neighborhood near the spanish embassy. and a home sweet home. we located the building property records show it was purchased in twenty twelve for twenty five million pounds or around forty million dollars by another company based in the british virgin islands called latina associates ltd using a mortgage. from barclays bank. the panama papers leak reveals that latina associates is owned by mrs folks and mr folks whose company to which is the international.
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london is a favorite destination for many oligarchs their money. on the international front you said. we don't just. the professional services that can be hijacked you used were we also have all the trimmings where you are want to spend good money . in london you buy anything you buy yourself a mansion it comes into you buy yourself a lot of fun out of the base you buy yourself a yacht a lot but. this building in central london houses a company called chesterfield group. it's what's called a company formation agent a crucial tool for any oligarchs such as pavel folks. for a small fee they'll set up a company for you and you can remain anonymous it can be off shore with an address that's not yours the name's direct it won't be you the name secretary won't be you you simply control it in the background or you will know many cutouts protect your identity.
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if anyone ever comes to ask the question they just are throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominee director and i was this just a field group. and i came to ask you some questions about how to folks as effectively you have these cut out characters then depersonalize and distance the money from any of the real perpetrators of the situation we mailed in cool to you but you didn't respond you can create a company in the next thirteen pounds and it takes you i've done it out in the in minutes alone. no one checks the information that you provide literally and there are three hundred fifty thousand companies created by company formation agents. in the u.k. actually here. this office chesterfield group a closely linked to folks. just
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a fields building is owned by a company based in the british virgin islands gober a group bought in twenty fifteen for around five million dollars with a barclays mortgage. gerbera group is owned by fox his company to just an international just a field has branches in cyprus i love my island in the bahamas and of course london in many cases dorchester international is the named director. if you've got a company formation agent register that company formation agent is fully companies see you there. media really suspicious huge huge a lot about. just the field appears to be a captive company formation agent in other words creating companies for its own or . specs perfect sense may not always know how to get i mean your own company foolish as you want to sell them to your mates give them a. christmas present and get his
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a london company or the bank out. in part two we confront alexander on a shankar one of the buyers of quick pace. there is like kind of business that you can buy cheaper in the car tool to fix the program to make the money. and we reveal the man believed to be the seller of the frozen assets. the is unbalanced and an inch is a vengeful person a principled and ruthless. valued as a gem of africa nairobi has gone through many changes over the past decades took to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera.
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dizzier explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and why it will raise influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil war the most violent resistance was over the world. who oppressed people have a look at me and continue to keep the negroes if that's what you mean by both x. and martin luther king preached a free speech at this time on all jazeera. in london with a quick roundup of the top stories geria is in the process of flying thousands of its citizens home from libya large numbers of nigerians are trapped in libya where they were trying to cross to italy by sea but was stopped by local factions there in libya's coast guard and now facing di conditions and abuse estimated that about
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five thousand migrants will be flown home but the nigerian government has admitted the exact numbers and not clear. our president has made available all the resources necessary for over isn't a good and more of the let him to repatriate all the margarines here this is the other the conflict in may here you know who you know when we came we were working around a figure of about five thousand five hundred. good unarmored one hundred assess how that comes along comes the left me at martin but the question of numbers. has become a bit problematic a car bomb in the city of the syrian city of idlib has killed twenty five people even more been injured in the city which is under the control of. the syrian observatory for human rights says the explosion appeared to target the headquarters of an opposition faction well that attack took place as syrian government forces
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and their allies continued their advance to recapture it led from rebels schools thousands of civilians to flee towards the border with turkey in freezing winter conditions it lip is the largest remaining rebel held territory in syria the former white house chief strategist steve bannon is trying to make amends now with the u.s. president he reaffirmed his support for donald trump in a statement after becoming the main source for a damaging book about trump's presidency trump continues to denounce the far inferior book as lies it was written by journalist michael wolff thirty two people are missing in the east china sea after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship and caught fire it happened off the coast of shanghai search teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh who work for an iranian shipping company rescue a save the twenty one crew of the of the ship involved the tank was carrying one hundred thirty six thousand tons of oil products. so you're up to date with all the
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top stories the news hour is coming up and twenty five minutes time so do join me then. i'm. in part one now former ukrainian president viktor yushchenko stole billions one point five billion dollars was frozen we have obtained documents that expose a plot in twenty fifteen to steal again one hundred sixty million dollars of that money is held in a company called quick pace limited. it involves two all agog pavel folks and alexander on a shank are planning to buy quick pacers frozen assets at a knockdown price. and there. it sounds like an agreement between a criminal boss you can assign it to is your blood. now we reveal where the stolen money is destined and the identity of the reclusive third all agog
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believed to be selling the frozen assets. of an inch is a vengeful person unprincipled and ruthless. the story of our documents takes us back to the heyday of the corruption of ukraine's former president. deep into one network of his offshore companies. that traces the path of hundreds of millions of dollars out of ukraine from twenty eleven to his a skate in twenty fourteen. through foreign bank accounts and into the pockets of young and covert and his cronies. since ukraine became independent in ninety one to one. it has been essentially looted by its elites again and again and again and didn't the tactics they use are essentially always identical. faceless lawyers accountants and bankers helped pass
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hundreds of millions of dollars around the network. some as loans referenced redistribution of means some as payments for building materials own mellotron ics some for cars motorbikes even hockey flooring. the philosophy of money launderers is to create a situation where the money has moved to so many different companies in so many different countries and in so many different accounts thereby effectively laundering it because nobody has the resources to figure it out. while he was still in power the young courage network used quick pace to launder money sometimes moving relatively small amounts fire complex with the help of western banks. one document showed
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a payment of four point four million dollars made by quick pace from its nominal home as a cyprus registered company. the money was held in a quick pace account in vienna with austria as mine all bank. it was wired to an account in frankfurt with commerce back. on to do each a bank in new york. it ended up at bolton international bank in latvia the account of a shell company folks trying networks limited folks strong like quick pace is registered in cyprus. none of the banks appear to have raised a red flag what's called a suspicious activity report. it's very easy for a bank to throw out a suspicious activity is actually present but the trouble is who's digesting this this which sent to your courts nasserist in many cases nobody. the documents linking quick pace to folks trying networks in turn link quick pace to one of the world's highest profile money laundering scandals it was discovered by russian
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accountant surrogate magnitsky he was working for an investment firm based in my. go and run by bill browder. surrogate supposed that he was then arrested and tortured and killed in prison. the russian government says magnitsky died of natural causes and accuses browder of the fraud browder claims russian officials stole two hundred thirty million dollars in state funds and huge quarter billion dollar russian government embezzlement synonymous with justice and corruption in russia frightening reminder of how quickly money can disappear. cubans revealed folk strong networks had been wired money by quick pace in march twenty fourth. we then discovered that fox strong was owned by one of the companies at the heart of the magnitsky affair final limited. final limited is one of the
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central. parts of the apparatus like the. spigot on the i. final is effectively a nominee company that is the director for a number of very crucial. points in this money laundering network. both quick pace and the company it would money to folks trying networks are registered in cyprus. which ukrainians funnel their money offshore to cyprus and then on boards beyond and then bring it back again so it looks like foreign investments you can't really tell it lends it. in the quick pace deal another side first company prone to service limited is named as the seller of the one hundred sixty million dollars in frozen assets. but prone to services just to cut out a nominee shareholder it owns the assets on paper but the real owner is hiding
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behind it. christina cyrus is the name secretary of prone to service to cyberspace. lawyer and offshore expert. cyrus refused our request for an interview or to divulge the name of the person behind produce service but we tracked it down in a secretly recorded conversation she confirmed to that quick pace had been sold. but can't a company quit. that's because i remember because it was a currency and it was an act that. the cyprus company registry shows quick pace was transferred to one of the couple books says many companies and the more property holdings with the help of his company formation agents just a feel. the
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leaked documents also provide evidence that the quick pace deal was done or at least that is first phase began. folks apparently made a payment from a london bank transfer two million dollars from barclays canary wharf ga back in new york was used to move from money they passed it to an offshore company with an account in latvia and a mystery owner the money went through no red flags. western banks have had a hard time making money over the last few years so when somebody shows up and says i like to set up an account with one hundred million dollars then you have to look for a pretty good reason not to set up that account. all the documents in the link lead us to a british village north of london under british law this type of company that allows foreigners to avoid tax and scrutiny it's called a limited liability partnership. companies for it some people call them getaway
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cars for corrupt money i have heard a better described as on the plate. one of the companies is registered here this is the official office of a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars resources l.l.b. . according to bank statements leaked to us finkel made three hundred twenty eight million dollars in just six months of twenty thirteen. but in public accounts filed with u.k. authorities can call claimed it made less than seven thousand it looks like fraud so we came to ask about it. the managers of the address of the registered office had refused our request for an interview. one is well jeweled my work without is there are. we doing a an investigation into. ukraine.
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this hard future office has registered over fifteen hundred companies so the people who work here just run a postbox service. with the director secretary and address all being proxies finding out who really owns a company can be almost impossible. if you own something in your own name then you can just look on the company register on the property register as other you get all of his house. but if i own that house in a company a british company and if my british company is owned by that's a separate company that my cypriot companies are owned by let's say panamanian company and if my panamanian cup is owned by a nevus company. then if you want to find out who owns this house you have to go to every one of those jurisdictions and asked them. who owns that company. hello.
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hello i wanted to ask about a couple of companies. think oh resources. from coal resources features in the files. it's no many directors were also involved in the magnitsky scandal. a lot being citizen called your event and signs the papers for fin co is just a cutout for the person who really owns and controls the company. another director is stan goren again a cutout whose name is regularly used as a front man by money launderers these name directors may be paid for the nominee role but are likely ignorant of any fraud. information you've presented is what i call the pipe this is the pipe through which dirty money from russia ukraine and other countries in that part of the world all flow through is raul effectively part
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of the same criminal operation. the pipeline leads to moscow. as well as the links with the magnitsky affair the documents feature hundreds of emails from lawyers based in. s. o. concerned to conceal the name of their client they write in cryptic language. good evening. february twenty sixth twenty fifteen foot the bill going to top shelf. technical gus read the book and give a positive review of the. council decision of three floors to leave in force the decision of wanting to flows. sincerely is agreed in my supervisor. but who is the supervisor. we found the answer buried deep in a key document. a loan agreement shows quick pace was used to put up collateral by
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a company called vet media invest in order to borrow huge funds in october twenty fifth. vet tech belongs to a surrogate kitchen car known as the baby faced gas king of ukraine by age twenty seven he was worth four hundred million dollars. from a presidency on a code which apparently treated him like a wallet gave cash to the president whenever he needed it. he was given control of a chunk of the gas tray he made a lot of money for himself and then he cut back most of it and to his political patrons which was you know your coverage when it came just sun. there's more evidence pointing to kitchen co is the seller. a lawyer called boris gets off appears in the e-mails. russian business records show he's director of
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united media holdings. united media used to belong to a surrogate could change i. was just businessmen but i can say a very talented corrupt judge because he used. the very tricky schemes very unusual schemes to steal like. today he's in hiding in moscow wanted in ukraine sanctioned in the u.s. and europe. his office is in a skyscraper complex developed by pavel fox's companies. two of his former drivers told us more about him. kuching to his boys asking when we will arrive if you don't answer immediately you'll be fired. it was the worst job i ever had. he swears he screams at his employees he fires two to three people every month is
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very inadequate. the drivers are worried that they'll be in danger if their former boss finds out they've been talking to us the isn't balanced on the edge is a vengeful person unprincipled and ruthless. goes only given three interviews to journalists. on was you've done. at the booth yeah we should do that you will only by your leave and i leave this do you leave the diversity or we don't have enough revenue in the mean yeah i'm a. yes a sim yes although. i keep school coaches they have a pool which she's. just. yeah but the boston thing you are going to want to focus your affair almost i need you don't wish to have a news from you know. we tracked down janko using information from his former
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chauffeurs. is guarded by alpha group former counterterrorism special forces. their fortune wars and have state medals they are armed with rubber bullets. just before seven am the guards receive information that he's coming they get in position. there are five cars eighteen people in the convoy. the cars are fitted and signal blockers with two hundred mi to range. the convoy includes a security travels in the second bullet proof. as a mobile ambulance with a medic. as a fourth vehicle blocking the entrance to the complex. and a fifth sweep a car. to change oh i don't argument with some chechen guys in a restaurant after that stepped up a security. kitching
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car rushes out glimpsed for a split second before he's inside the building. his stuff bring his things and the drivers park and white. we often drive into the ministry of economic development the ministry of natural resources the national space agency. also the russian presidential administration. state gas for gazprom. state oil for rosneft. state funded d.t.b. bank. i'm just going to. do a couple of instance because francisco. i'm going to do this should be don't think. it's there it's in your words stick you there was more than just to show you when you're stressed like i would have come.
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ukraine's spy agency reports that he's helping the russian side in the conflict in ukraine. he's running some of the biggest coal oil and gas companies in annexed crimea and areas controlled by russian separatists all styles was old so. sure it was a very new organs for billions kind of news. in most countries you have the government of criminals businessman in russia all those distinctions practically disappear. it's their interest afresh to destroy ukraine from inside it's against the interest of gramlich. for ukraine to succeed and i'm to corruption.
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through the quick pace deal we've uncovered approach to profit from the billions stolen by the clan surrounding former ukrainian president viktor yushchenko that. a baby faced billionaire used dozens of lawyers seemingly to turn frozen assets into clean money. or evidence was confirmed by one of the buyers of quick pace. was one of the businessman trumpeter or government. that was going to check. for on a shank or buying assets stolen in a grand corruption case is just another day at the office. because like kind of business that you can buy cheap rent a car to. prophesy. who thinks the program to make the money is about to come when i revealed that we had the quake based document on the shin code tonight that the deal went ahead. it was like normal business but this one has
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not happened yet we didn't buy they didn't know they wanted to sell us assets which was already frozen they gave us a very good discount but then with chick coarsely unforeseeable pool on four hundred record. they may not yet have made money but all evidence directly contradicts on the shank his account that the deal did not go ahead official documents record a change of ownership of quick pace a lawyer in cyprus said the sale had happened. something that i remember was in prison not for closing. ukraine's anti corruption bureau also confirmed the sale. and he shouldn't. miss just says he's can businessman the folks who can do it to. so never happen never have.
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to. will we know it was with this look on all the zero over whose lives at the offices of ukraine's anticorruption bureau a powerful politician with his own to russia has a right to complain. google needs to be a warm up what was this was what is about to be wondering when you're going want to own the will show up in the news for a book there goes under while you are walking with. the question come up with a millionaire politician had just learnt that he was under investigation. but you know you often greasy go to some would call one which is when you don't. really need that one guy you know the argument all streamed live on national television. this is ukraine's corruption a shi'ite wealthy politicians versus now as a whole at netscape the young new anti corruption prosecutor is going to put into
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place almost all show so to say but also boyish go to south american diplomat you either live. or bush to the national grid know what. sort of. the cube was. brought what you know the great. stuff yonder wal-mart you know review friday we are witnessing all traditional corrupt system was withdrawn from the. tried to do everything possible to destroy this new agency only with young muslims. that the secu bought up this go. on the whole don't kill automata it is not. in the but a the. the anti corruption bureau is drowning in paperwork and its case against ana shango is falling apart what chances do you think there are of seeing this trying to. take other than a go we will shoot. but also one signal more session. so what
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chance do you think there is that you will ever go to prison. i don't know as. we say in your career and that nobody is sure. ukraine's under corruption chiefs console themselves by saying they've seized on a shrinkers private jet. but i. think what's up with this but has issued the opposite. of the to the us but it has a but a high school. but even that appears to be an illusion. we tracked down the jet sitting at luton airport in the u.k. . it was sold in march last year for twenty five million dollars today it's for charter to the super rich costing around thirty thousand dollars an hour. today sees one of your private jets known as a book there is no this is not
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a crummy zero year. for its people now the poorest in europe the ukrainian tragedy plays on. the. national hunt champ not become might gonna have built up on a hill. yet who might say i will get man up but in that kind of war if there. are the soul of what the note brought off they wore. it was a new show seahorse united that she didn't show. new clothes and it's time to push the lid to a clean water but. alexander on a shango has now been granted asylum in spain. stepping up his investments in ukraine buying gas companies and possibly
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a bank. surrogate house london lawyers working to overturn his sanctions and unfreeze his money everyone gets away because if you look at the amount of money that stolen in developing countries globally three years is estimated as a trillion dollars in the teeth how much for comfort out of every thousand dollars that stone and twenty five cents. on. him it cuts into last night then it will cap and i should based on the news block and the animals. nothing will call that passion my bond issues at eighty or so is more cost plus had asked janet in bash a live update. how
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are they following screens in place for parts of southeastern australia things should improve slightly at least as we go on through the next couple days you still see a little bit of cloud there just coming into new south wales easing across victoria as well not just way further east which remember sydney getting up to forty seven celsius on sas day going on into sunday thirty three celsius on monday still plenty warm enough but that twenty three that we have in melbourne a saw of what is to come for the middle part of the week gradually it will cool down through the around thirty two for sydney on the cheese a bit sour some showers pushing in over the next few days twenty celsius there for melbourne by tuesday further west but some places the shower rain coming in here and up towards the top end certainly some wet weather to watch out for as we go on through the next day or two some very lively showers coming in here a lot of showers not dispose of rainey's on their way across new zealand meanwhile of say some brightness in between some spells of sunshine twenty to twenty three
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degrees here for christchurch and for all kind of tough woman that as we go on into choose a bit wetter weather started to push his way to the south island by this day's so the passage of time a while saying some wet weather started to push waves of very heavy rain there for monday and will ease a little further eastwards tuesday. this is zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up nigeria starts evacuating thousands of its citizens who'd been trapped in slave like conditions in.

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