there's been another dramatic development in cyprus where the speaker of parliament demitra serious has announced his resignation now mr serious had been hanging on for a couple of days but we seem protests outside parliament on 2 successive nights and his name is the one they were calling for to resign was a serious did not admit any wrongdoing he still maintains his innocence but he was a key figure in al jazeera a documentary which revealed him to be agreeing to help a chinese criminal opted in an e.u. passport the last couple of days and also seen him being something of an object of ridicule with means showing him holding a now notorious glass of red wine and winking at the camera there is a serious insists that he will be proven innocent when the attorney general's investigation is complete but for now it's another scalp for the people who say that this man is corrupt despite his objections and that he has to step down.

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bottom line tackles the big issues this issue 19 states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. and welcome to rewind on 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 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 hidden cameras investigative journalists and. went undercover and scratch beneath the surface of what appeared to be in the desolate gold traders bought as a 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 ghana 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 enemy scum these for us this have become a major threats to companies and individuals looking to invest in my country's most valuable commodity. that's chemists and foreign investors and it's well below normal reach and with global gold prices now hitting record profits on. the

system but that doesn't exists the investors are taking for millions while defrosters gets rich this time i am going to make this chemist big 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 recalled. i was storing the. vaults there. we tested it was good. to do that next shift. find the. street. put us towards a deal didn't end of the going to deplete 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 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 money and it's just been. handed 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 do with the reputation and development opportunities of my country i went to the police headquarters in atlanta the director referred me to the head of the department in charge of goldstein cases dennis and his chief of operations ralph some years back was coming to steal from us just today when i look at my unit to lose 2000 assembly we have

a. good this is for you. this 2000 lives we have. to treat to discover just to consider. 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 d.c. dennis and ralph took me to see some of the figure had a pain to fight against gould's chemists. so usually how did the victims be when you open up to sift through them. and they realize that there is no food and that evening from just foresters in this case you know that guy or the victim so real. and when this bus was booked the police. we look at it in distress as. a vehicle. we found has been robbed and

then sent. to a shop because initially did stop what he saw. actually. having spoken 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. how many people are involved in this scum in this world . really myself people. aren't induced mr. truro to ward off connection drugs or go in there. to come by. anybody for sure who missed me due to. good work 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 hot spots online scams. people are good do good good are. a problem for do you need friends who are willing. to sue for life. high unemployment and poverty levels are clearly a major factor in the rise of these cranks but these frustrates a destroying people's lives as an undercover journalist my motto east name. is time to give these compass the taste of my meds i've been tipped off about the book was good. business of debris 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 one of the investor i'll be posing passes trent a professional footballer who has played so compromise i can take the mining company

and be lousy health i tell them you'll be arriving from the middle east in a few days' time and that he's keen to buy some within hours i get an interest yes the response from a man called patrick black sheep 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 meat i would also be there i'll be waiting for you. i'll cover story is that we are friends and that we enjoy the way i play football they will prove to pick us once we have the hotel. steps quickly preparatory so that will be the very fast pace of the investigation before we move in to meet them to take us to 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 predict what do you do most important to have at it thinking to. stay focused being all right. and overall keep to smile smile. when i. called to say 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 insight to find him. from. them and who had met in a loose shit if davy cooled soon be arriving to collect us and take us to do will tell outside desmond and seles who were keeping and look up.

both. of. us who are waiting for their vehicle i decided to go ahead to the hotel and make sure everything with the room was set at about 10 minutes later this come as i arrived to collect just what are you what's happening . yeah them everything on p.t. looking. you know this issue is focused. on what. to give you told. me. to do. the investigation.

tonight. or get the money. we want. how. we want.

ringback. yeah one well we had a conversation with him and he said the kid has to make him believe that we are doing it and he has been eating and things like. they will consistently want to tell you to be wary and to be careful that you're not scalloped passes that what he was trying to say the next step was to check the authenticity of the documents

provided to us by patrick. is the manager of monitoring and evaluation at the minerals commission the government body responsible for regulates in the mining sector. also really look out. i mean sword in name here. i mean really mining company limited reactionary service documentation from all sides trying to check on the background of this company merely to testify that it's a firm and company because you don't have anything again as for consent is concerned it's going to export promotion council it was consenting to think how many 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 to see in the markets something that is went to $100000.00 so they've gotten some who are selling to them for $35000.00 i tell you who are you for it is. in the consumer driven

world of today it is obvious that scum is would be the only people who feel that easy money whether or not most come victims trying to make a fuss about $1.00 says wait 7 said tammy reminded that investors need to be sensible and take necessary precautions. we. wanted to see. would be.

along with. everyone. as we. have been. most of these. 75 key.

approach in business and off i investigate. and i would say. pay me. fest to a private residence where do what. they wanted us. to detest in law. and as a president with a stick into the national bank when we're told the rest of the couldn't be done for safekeeping in sight and man claiming to be the bank manager assured as of the good security. at the banks head office revealed that often musette facility to see post . the alleged bank manager was honest come. 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 surreal. to see and really to see on how to exports to it it's not clear whether he knew he was helping to prepare to hit the front but what is certain is that the whole day 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 with collected all the evidence to morrow morning i'm going to present it to the putting . the raid will take place home make a final feeling. of the critical thing is our body rate is that if it cooled must be that. to get evidence of intent to sell.

it. 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. weeks investigation has gone through well and so to be. going to the beach in the kitchen in. one room before me and i will which will be for a bailout and myself. to be sure. will be a briefing. by men they will move to the decision. to the position and with whatever it's ok thank you good luck. everyone was.

all we had to do was weeks. and. then. back. in the room. but there was a. move to a different. hotel suite. there are. people prepared to send in. order. not. to collect. it was cranky

time. for you feeling. nothing. television. coverage today i can represent any kind of a metaphor you. can know that i have come to from there go to look for the far corner of the of the frozen privately i'll let them know. that. back at patrick's would tell the rest of this comics way still. quick with the. car i'm overdue to give me 5000 trucks on the last how do you really. look at. just about. the c

o 2 pilots who deliberately shoot the sit in there for the ensuing investigation came to a successful completion police tests in the 75 can also confirmed that it was indeed only one bag which must have the means for the good purity test of the judge . was really. all those rest appearing in court over the next month to stand trial for the. 2 did this for us this have been beaten own game but almost at addicts companies and individuals have been scum up and down because destroying life and demi image and the investment process. the result of this one investigation may not change anything but this was a small. fascinating film about gone has been a dollar gold trade and to update us on this story we're joined now by

a basket of janice and as i am. whose identity we're not showing great to speak to you just remind viewers who may not have seen this interviewing you before why the disk i. put on is these guys because of security reasons. enough rekha real threats to the journalists when you're under cover wake and saw in order to keep that face to be able to wake one then a story always where this disguise and is made of beats with african beats fool's gold i mean it makes for grepping viewing wave both sides fearful of being exposed did you fare for your life when you were filming well normally should be sore but when you do proper recchi then you know that tends to fall. short so yes there were fears initially maddened all got to do indulge down as soon as we realised that we had done proper way before taking the action but there were

a few years 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 are real and it happens in many of our stories but fear fire lives i think was a bit more minimal in that story what happened to the scammers. 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 rolling do you feel a sense of frustration with the system does it move too slowly for you. i have done several of us dollar is that we said jim when he's in jail for 15 years though of the general story that i did be ideal for this talk of the ad the one i did on the coco smuggling story they are in jail for 16 years so put together so yes i do know that something the system grinds slowly but 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 have tens and all at the house will it guess then do you see the situation improving them in context of this film or foreign investors so be wary about think business in ghana 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 the. most african countries we have willing to police a vis where if you think the evidence for them to want to take 2 steps so yes it's horrible we have comments 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 investments also developed and they have that if you smoke in it and you see anything going wrong you should be able to report it as you only way the systems can't work you've been doing this this job for 20 years now was the. most proud of. well i would say my next work that is coming 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 is that replica of it on the african continent is what makes me happy and then i think that another one is coming just states and you're going to slee absolutely and as 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 on everyone page at the al-jazeera website but for now until next time.

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