forces vow to start a joint patrol on the syrian side of the border right after that deadline british politicians have approved a timetable for prime minister boris johnson's apos legislation for an early election johnson's 1st attempts for an early vote fail to get enough support on monday nights but choose days effort could pass with opposition leader jeremy corben expressing his support for polls to be held in december. his condition for supporting an early election is that a no deal bracks it be taken off the table has been met parts of the u.s. state of california are bracing for a strong winds on tuesday which are expected to further flare up the wildfires thick smoke plumes could easily be seen from space state of emergency has been declared those are the headlines rewind is coming up next on al-jazeera.

and welcome to rewind i'm laura. in this series we're returning to some of the best documentaries said on al-jazeera english since we launched over a decade ago back in 2011 the africa investigates series dug deep into africa's 2nd largest gold producer for centuries it was called the gold coast's but today this

west african country is known as gone and in recent years has been home to a multi-billion dollar industry that once gave it its name using heaven cameras investigative journalists and. went undercover and scratch beneath the surface of what appeared to be in the desolate gold traders. last was about to discover all that glitters may not necessarily big gold from 2011 falls gold. my name is and i remain anonymous i am an undercover journalists here in van and with my team have spent years now infiltrating and fighting cramming corruption in my country my anonymity is my secret weapon and this time i am using it against a new scam these 1st as have become a major threats to companies and individuals looking to invest in my country's most valuable commodity to come as foreign investors and it's well below normal rates and with gold prices now hitting record profits. and polices but that

doesn't exists the investors are taking 4 millions while the 1st says get rich this time i am going to make this chemist be as i go undercover to lift the lid on distant luzhin report of. i'm on my way to meet a businessman. who was being scammed of over 1.5 dollars. from america was coming last year when finally a deal for $56.00 kilos of gold at the local refinery called a service i was storing the. vaults there. we tested it was good fun to do the next shift. find the oldest in st. nick put us towards ordeal didn't end there of the going to the police the people who stole his money that threaten him. follow me in a car and i threatened to kill me the biggest problem here is that

a foreigner loses money they're going to try to do something and then come in it's like a mafia a threat they scared people and then they just pack up they really weave their money behind this millions and millions of dollars and people's money just being taken people for their whole lives for the money and it's just been. down a drain and one day here in told story it's made me angry that not only where this chemist stealing from individuals like to be with the reputation and development opportunities of my country i went to the police headquarters in atlanta that director referred me to the head of the department in charge of goldstein cases dennis and his chief of operations ralph some years fire was coming to steal from us just when i look at small unit a little 2000 assembly we have. been doing this for you.

this 2000 lives we have. to treat the good stuff just so you can see. this. so what kind of figures are we talking about here so far from lost about $200000.00 some in millions of dollars across the country there have already been it's cases reported deceit dennis and ralph to me to see some of the figure had obtained through the fight against gould's chemist. who usually how did a victim is being blamed for pain and deceive to them. and they realize that there is no home and that evening from just foresters in this case you know that guy or the victim so real. and when this bus was booked to the police. we look at it in the stresses. of people. we found

has been robbed and then sent. to a shop because initially did stop what he saw. actually. have been speaking to the police it's clear this is a growing and serious issue but i want to get a view from inside to find out what is really going on one of my connections monies to put me in contact with the goods coming yes i agreed to talk on the condition his identity is concealed so how many people are involved in this scam in this world. really myself people. aren't induced mysterious try to ward off connection to this regard in their. become by. anybody for sure when released in the group. to group which he explained to me that goods comes where just the tip of the iceberg part of a much wider network of for us this all working together these crimes are becoming

endemic in the west african region and gama is now a global hotspots for online scams. people are good to group good to. be approved for do we need to find those who are willing. to support the life high unemployment and poverty levels. that in the rise of these cranks but distrust as a destroying people's lives as an undercover journalist my motto east name. is time to give these times a taste of my medicine i've been tipped off about the book was good. business the f.b.i. bring mining company an informant has told me that it is a front for a well established group of scum yes but to prove it i need to get inside the prison and run a sting so f.n. listed an associate to the path of the will of the investor i'll be posing passes trent a professional footballer who has played so. i can take the mining company. i told

him he'll be arriving from the middle east in a few days' time and that he's keen to buy some within now as i get an interest yes the response from a man called patrick watching the company even office to collect my friend from the airport and taking to his with the game is on a salaam aleikum be allowed this is the plan when you are right there will be dead meat i would also be they have been waiting for you. to cover story that we are friends and that we enjoy the way i play football they will prove to pick us once we tell them we have stats quickly preparatory so that will be the very fast pace of the investigation before we move in to meet them to take us. and yeah that things. are right.

we are on our way to meet. the law. and to meet this comments for the 1st. this time so usually uncertain times because dealing with the. times predicts what the. most important and that it took him to. stay focused on being. an overall contest whilst. on our way to the sea he had arrived and had already been met by someone as he came of that plane. i was worried as i wanted to be with him when this comment i write. i had read a sight to find him. i mean if if if if if if if if you of them and who had might be in a low shit if that day the cool arriving to connect us and take us to do will tell outside best one and seles way keeping and look up each.

of. us who are waiting for their vehicle i decided to go ahead to the hotel and make sure everything with their room was set up about 10 minutes later this come as i arrive to collect just for you what's happening. film them everything on p t. now this issue's. going. to give you. a real. investigation. tonight.

on the money. how.

well we had a conversation with him and he said it is to make him believe that we are wondering and he has been eating and like. will consistently want to turn you to anywhere and to be careful that you are not scalloped passes what he was trying to see the next step was to check the authenticity of the documents provided by

patrick. is the money of monitoring and evaluation of the minerals commission the government body responsible for regulating the mining said. oh also really look about i mean sword in name here. yeah i mean when mining company limited reactionary service documentation from all sides trying to check on the background of this company nearly i could testify that is a firm and company because you don't have anything like ghana's for consent is concerned it's gonna export promotion council it was consenting to think how many at the investors out there now communicating with these fraudulent companies i must say that i also blame the scum you don't by good luck too much is in the market something that is worth about $1000.00 so they've got his own group who are selling to them for $35000.00 i tell you who are you for dinner in the consumer driven

world of today it is obvious that scum is would be the only people to feel that easy money whether or not most come victims trying to make a fuss about $1.00 says wait 7 as a tammany remanded that investors need to be sensible and take necessary precautions. the next day we will know which meets the scum who are taken as to visit their gold moved we managed to convince them to allow us to film the trip claiming that bailouts business partners back home wanted to see the footage before making any commitments . as usual. i had.

to be seen. as weak. and. might have been. 75.

approaching my business and off i investigate. and i would say. pay me. to do. for safekeeping incite a man claiming to be the bank manager assured as of the food security. at the bank's head office revealed that often who said facility to see post. the alleged bank manager was on the scum. geological so they'd be padding is

a government run but private testing facility their results from their test indicated that it was it a 5 percent. it was real. they came to see and receive us on how to exports it it's not clear whether he knew he was helping to be paid to it before but what is certain is that there would be had been a carefully orchestrated cherry to sec us deeper into debt trap. and on to semi finals it's over we have gotten to the finals tomorrow we've collected all the evidence to morrow morning i'm going to present it to the putting . a raid will take place home make a final payment on the critical things our body rate is that if it cooled must be that. to get in tanks to sell because.

it was time. to the police some journalists me question my tendency. with those. but for me in this country seems to me and getting the job done. to me he's investigating has gone through hell and so to be payment is going to be in the kitchen in. the control. room before and. which will be for a bailout and myself. to be sure. would be a briefing. that will move the medicinal. to the position and with one of the ok thank you good luck. everyone was.

all we had to do. but there was a. different. way .

it was crank. that they can. come no. i have come to from the. top of the field actually i think the thing that. comes out. patrick's would tell the rest of the. see. with. 500 people i think you're going to ask the feeling is how do you really. think it's. possible that. the. wildest.

ensuing investigation came to a successful conclusion to police tests in the city 5. confirmed that it was indeed only one bag which must have been for the good purity test of the geological was real. all do spare rest appearing in court over the next month to stand trial for the action. to be this for us this have been beaten idea own game but most other deeds companies or individuals have been scum up and down the country destroying lives and damaging the image and investment prospects. there result of this one investigation may not change anything but this was a small. fascinating film about dollars 1000000000 dollar gold trade and to update us on the story we're joined now by a basket of genesis and as our mail and asked whose identity we're not showing

great to speak to you just remind viewers who may not have seen as interviewing you before why that's a skies well i put on this these guys because of security reasons. in africa real threats to their journalists when you and i come our way console in order to keep that face to be able to work on then a story i always wear this disguise and is made of beats with african beats fool's gold i mean it makes for grepping viewing wake up both sides fearful of being exposed did you fare for your life when you were filming the. well normally should be sol but when you do proper recchi then you know that tends to fall. short so yes there were fears initially but all got to do indulge down assoon as we realize that we had done proper way before taking the action but

there were a few of them coming on not coming that was leaving in the faces of all our lives when we're working on this story whether they would be able to smoke us out or not those fears i real and it happens in many of our stories but theophile lives i think was a bit more minimal in that story what happened to the scam and eventually they got busted we went to courts we took them the judicial process is still ongoing and then they are likely to be jailed likely to be dealt with yes the system is still ruling do you feel a sense of frustration with the system does it move too slowly for you. i have done several of us to our race that we said to him when he's in jail for 15 years of the regicide general story that i did. talk of the adult one i did on the cocos smuggling story they are in jail for 16 years so put together so yes i do know that something the system grinds slowly but aca i have seen results and i don't have to

get frustrated by that i think it should in silly me a sense of wanting to push the front yes faith and then i think that people are beginning to see their realities they had core evidence is there and when you attempt and all that the house will it to guess then. do you see the situation improving them in context of this film foreign investors so be wary about think business in gone well i think that if you have a nation that sits on it. sits down and does nothing about it that's when you should be worried this would come as would always be there but the bigger question is how prepared is your nation to fight in the. most african countries we have willing police say this where if you take the evidence of them do want to take 2 steps so yes it's horrible we have come this all around bad what is claimed is full is that there are people who are willing to take down this compass and also i

think foreign investors muscles will develop and they have that if you smoke in it then you seen it in going wrong you should be able to report it and that is you only way the systems can't work. doing this this job for 20 years now was the. most proud of. well i would say my next work that has come in i am proud of the justice which i did for this saying. it's also a big story to them come past all the most corrupt judges and it's that replica of it on the african continent is what makes me happy and then i think that another one is coming just deal with a silly absolutely will announce it's been great to speak to you and good luck with your future work thank you very much and that's it for this week's rewinds if you want to catch any of the other films in the rewind series you'll find them only one page at the al-jazeera website but for now until next time.

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