will go down celebration of that will go down further academy, celebration of that will go down furtheracademy, not celebration of that will go down further academy, not for next year's ratings. sophie long, bbc news, hollywood. congratulations to all the windows. time for a look at the weather with ben. thank you, clive. whether battle going on under many today the weather held firm. rise of 16 degrees —— the whether battle is going on for many today. barely above freezing and that cold air will make some progress southwards through tonight and into tomorrow so by tomorrow a very different feel in those parts of east anglia. it will probably stay at freezing but with that battle taking place, that battle between the cloud and tomorrow the air. we have some outbreaks of rain right now but not only rain, also some sleet and snow only rain, also some sleet and snow on the back edge. this wet and in places wintry weather will continue to journey southwards through the night. behind that, we are likely to see some widespread icy stretches,

some further snow showers into northern and western parts and temperatures in some parts of western scotland may be down to —11 celsius but there will be a frost for many tomorrow morning. the fire said perhapsjust avoiding for many tomorrow morning. the fire said perhaps just avoiding that but we will see that rain and hill snow clearing and we will all be in the colder air with some sunny spells but some wintry showers, tending to clump together across northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england into north wales, the north midlands. these showers will be a mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow. they could be is not a quite low levels in the heavier burst than they could even be some thunder and lightning mixing in. confirmation of the temperatures, three degrees per store perhaps nine for london, plymouth, but it will be a chilly viewing day. tuesday into wednesday it will be really cold under these clear skies. it will be really cold under these clearskies. expect it will be really cold under these clear skies. expect a widespread frost, some ice, but heading through wednesday things start to change once again. we see rain pushing in

from the west and maybe some snow briefly on the leading edge but the rain will be turning milder and actually to go back to a weather battleground it looks like it will be the milder air that winds out for the end of the week, surging northwards. the chair was the major thing on in the north of scotland but for most of thursday and friday are much milderfilled to the weather. in fact we can see temperatures all the way up to 15 degrees. with that there will be some windy weather not snow falling from the sky but some outbreaks of rain at times. a bit of a topsy—turvy week ahead. goodbye. cheers, ben. thank you for that. that's it. more analysis of the day's mean stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire getting under way over on bbc two. of course the news continues on bbc one as we join our colleagues standing by across the nations and regions for all of the nations and regions for all of the news where you are.

good evening. this is your sports news, where we start with football. manchester city face rb leipzig in the second leg of their last 16 champions league tie tomorrow night. city will hope home advantage can help get them over the line. the first leg in germany ended in a 1—1 draw. despite being the dominant force in the premier league for the past ten years, city have never won this competition but are still regarded as one of the favourites, a point the manager has been alluding to. we will absolutely be judged for that competition, yeah, definitely, because day one, i arrived here in the first in champions league, when i arrived, they said, you are here to win the champions league. i say, what? i could understand at real madrid, but here? i don't know. i accept it. what you go through is not going to change that, definitely. it is nice at this point

of the season when we are the main candidate, and every time we have not won the competition, we are... it's because of things you've done in the past. otherwise people cannot consider it. you play 90 minutes and do your best. leipzig manager marco rose highlighted the quality of manchester city striker erling haaland ahead of the match. haaland has been in sensational form for pep guardiola's side this season. but that hasn't stopped suggestions that haaland doesn't fit into pep guardiola's particular style of play. he scored 28 goals in 26 league games — he scored 28 goals in 26 league games if— he scored 28 goals in 26 league games. if you put these goals away, i don't _ games. if you put these goals away, i don't know— games. if you put these goals away, i don't know where city would be now in the _ i don't know where city would be now in the league, so... i don't know but we _ in the league, so... i don't know but we are — in the league, so... i don't know but we are talking about. erling haaland — but we are talking about. erling haaland is one of the top players,

top number nine, in the world. if you don't— top number nine, in the world. if you don't want him, send him to me! itake— you don't want him, send him to me! ltake him _ falkirk have become the first team from the third tier of scottish football in 17 years to reach the semi—finals of the scottish cup. they will play inverness caledonian thistle in the last four at hampden park after kai kennedy's deflected strike earned a 2—1win over ayr united. the goal came just moments after championship side ayr had missed a penalty. holders rangers will play celtic in the other semifinal. southampton have said they're "disgusted and disappointed" by racist abuse directed at kyle walker—peters on sunday and the club has criticised social media platforms for allowing "hatred to breed and fester". offensive remarks were posted in the comments section of an old instagram post after his side's goalless draw with manchester united. southampton have forwarded the messages concerned to hampshire police and expressed their concern that they are in the same position as two years ago, when alex jankewitz was racially abused online.

after a disappointing weekend in the six nations, there's more bad news for england's men's rugby team — they'll be without centre ollie lawrence in theirfinal game of the competition. lawrence has been ruled out of england's trip to dublin to play ireland in the six nations this weekend after he picked up a hamstring injury in england's record home defeat to france at twickenham on saturday. several irish players suffered serious injuries during their win over scotland, and two of them will miss saturday's grand slam decider with england. garry ringrose was taken off the pitch on a stretcher after a collision with blair kinghorn, while iain henderson is to have surgery on a broken arm. now to cricket, and david saker is returning to the england set—up as fast bowling coach for this summer's men's ashes series. the australian was previously with england when they won the ashes away from home in 2010—11. he'll also be in place for the 50—over world cup title defence in india in october. now some sad news from the world of athletics — the legendary high jumper

dick fosbury, who revolutionised the event with his signature "fosbury flop", has died at the age of 76. fosbury claimed gold at the 1968 olympics in mexico with this style and his innovation changed the sport. winning gold, he set a then world record of 2.21; metres and introduced a technique which is now the norm. racing's four to cheltenham festival in england starts tomorrow as new rules on the use of what's comes into effect. about 280,000 spectators are expected at the meeting over the unbeaten constitution hill top the opening day. runners faces competition if jockeys seriously reach contentious new rules on use of the whip. ultimately, we wanted jockeys to think more carefully about how they use the whip. it is not a welfare issue, it is about engagement of the

sport, it is about fairness. we roll from jump to flat to jump, and we from jump to flat tojump, and we have from jump to flat to jump, and we have our delayed implementation significant lease to significantly. at the indian wells masters in california, andy murray will take onjack draper in an all british affair in the early hours of the morning. the 35—year—old three—time grand slam champion has set up a first meeting with draper, 1a years hisjunior and ranked just one spot below him at 56, with the winner to face world number two carlos alcaraz or dutchman tallon griekspoor. more on that of course and everything else indian wells on the bbc sport website, but that is all your sport for now. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. a global pandemic and a national emergency.

from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. an economy grinding to a halt. companies on the brink. well, today we announced a brand new loan scheme for the smaller businesses. rishi sunak, then chancellor, to the rescue. rishi stood up and said, "this is the bounce back loan scheme." there'll be no credit checks. it was like jackpot for a lot of people. a godsend for business. a gold mine for criminals. £100,000 holidays, eating in the best restaurants, the flashiest, fastest cars, yachts, everything that most people would desire in their lives when they win the lottery. these people, they won the lottery in an entirely different way.

it was a colossal sum of money gone to some very, very bad people. - this is the inside story of fraud on a massive scale of gangs and glamour. i dug about in companies house. you see that? it's £10 million. we' re really close. we just want to ask you where the money went. this is the chef, the model and the missing millions. the story starts here with two men, artem terzyan and deivis grochiatskij, one russian and one lithuanian. tell us a bit about artem terzyan. russian. previous bad character.

came here, was really the controller of what was going on in relation to this group, a bad man. deivis? lithuanian, previous convictions in lithuania, again, afamily man. came to this country, was the mastermind around everything that went on and made a lot of money. this isjohn coles from the national crime agency. a copperfor decades, he knows a thing or two about fraud. i've never seen anything like it. so it is the biggest one i know of. it's the biggest one i've seen and it's probably going to be the biggest one we will see for a long time. terzyan and grochiatskij were money launderers caught on police surveillance videos. that bag's stuffed with cash. and this is them delivering a safe.

bundles and bundles of notes, ledgers and counting machines. they took dirty money from other gangs and put it through a whole load of fake companies — cleaning it, making it look legitimate. here they are, depositing cash at the bank, something they did almost every day. the prime minister announces the toughest restrictions on our way of life in living memory. you must stay at home. what was bad for the legitimate economy was also bad for criminals. the supply of dirty cash virtually dried up. so what do you do if you have a whole network of dodgy companies but with no money to launder? the bounce back loan scheme is designed to support uk smaller businesses that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus outbreak. well, as luck would have it,

the government had just set up an emergency loan scheme. £50,000 on offer, almost no questions asked. from £2,000 to £50,000... well, obviously, they're criminals, so they take advantage of anything that's readily available. and fortunately for them, unfortunately for the united kingdom, covid came along. the government tried to do the best it could for businesses, for people to support them during that difficult period. and these people took advantage of it and made £10 million worth through £50,000 applications at a time. yep, you heard that right — £10 million. and as soon as the bounce back loans hit their bank accounts here in london, they were gone — sent around the world, to the united arab emirates, to the usa, to hungary, to malaysia. but terzyan and grochiatskij got careless. they and some of the rest

of the gang are now behind bars. here's deivis being interviewed by the national crime agency. so you were arrested this morning on suspicion of being involved in bounce back loan fraud, £10 million of criminal funds. translator: i don't. know who is doing this. when officers from the national crime agency went through the doors of flats seven and eight here, they found bundles of cash, high—end watches, a string of bank cards and evidence of holidays in the caribbean and reservations at some of london's top restaurants. and that leaves some important questions. where did the money go? who else was involved? and can they tell us where it went? it seems the gang made the docklands area of east london their home. they owned properties here, here, here and here,

right next to city airport. so this is where we start looking. the gang lived well and liked to show it on social media. here's deivis's wife posing for the camera. we matched the view of the ship with the actual ship and — bingo. renata grochiatskij is the wife of one of the ringleaders of the scheme. she got a two—year suspended sentence for her part in it. she's living just over there. do you think she knows where the money is? i try to persuade her to do an interview with us. well, look, thank you for talking to me. she said she was scared to talk

to us, didn't want to talk to us, didn't feel she could talk to us. said maybe we should talk to her solicitor also suggested we might come back with a translator, but at the moment she's not able to tell us anything useful. so what next? what is it they say? follow the money. remember that network of companies the gang used? each one needed a real person to act as a director. so how much did they know about what their business was being used for? they do have some responsibility. they probably turned a blind eye to what was going on, but i've no doubt they knew what was going on. why do you think that? if somebody comes to me with something that seems too good to be true, then in the back of my mind, i'm going to be thinking, "there's something not quite right about this." say hello to yekaterina kobrina. yekaterina was the director of one

of the key companies involved in the scheme. her name was on all sorts of documents. we don't know whether she ever lived in london, but looking through her facebook profile, we know she came here and that's just about 200 metres from where the gang was living. she looks like any other tourist smiling for the camera. but was she doing something more thanjust sightseeing? and this is povilas bartkevicius, a chef by trade and director of one of the main companies involved. we know that povilas was in london, too, standing on this exact spot, posing in front of that super yacht hotel. we really want to talk to them. they're not in london any more, but both have common links to a city more than 1,000 miles away.

lithuania, home to several million people, but we're only looking for two — povilas and yekaterina. theyjust might be able to tell us what happened to that £10 million. first, though, let me introduce you to a couple of people. these two are local investigative journalists. they've agreed to help out. and as we're about to find out, they're really good. these are the people we're interested in. so we're starting with just two names and they're not in the phone book. this is yekaterina.

so what do we know about yekaterina kobrina? yes. so it is yekaterina kobrina. so it's definitely her. yeah. there's the obvious. she's a model. and, look, we found an online clothes outlet she works for. hello? we try to book her for a photo shoot. but the woman on the phone is suspicious. he's found something — a facebook post. so this is like a shopping street or talking about a shop. she's saying that last week, she bought potatoes and it was in very bad conditions in the shops. and today she bought tomatoes. 0k, translate. so you can write. "last week, we received rotten tomatoes, which looked tragic." so this is vilnius. so that is where

the potatoes were bought? yes. well, we need to go there, don't we? continue on for 2km. £10 million of british taxpayers' money in this neighbourhood seems hard to believe. that's the shop, the supermarket where yekaterina so she was doing that, well, a couple of times over a couple of weeks. i mean, that must mean she lives here or close by. we must be close, but no luck. dead end — for now. so what are our chances of ever finding that money? criminals do not have borders.

they don't care. this man runs a lithuanian anti—money laundering organisation in the uk. —— this man runs a lithuanian anti—money laundering organisation. in the uk, during covid, the government set up the schemes to help out businesses. they were handing out £50,000 with almost no checks at all. what do you think of that? er... i would say it's a mistake. criminals are the first in the line who are trying to use new products, who are trying to use new services and etc. so, it's a mistake. with the economy imploding and businesses going to the wall at the height of covid, handing out loans as fast as possible seemed like the only option.

well, right at the start, i thought, "well, all you need for a bounce back loan is an eligible company and a pulse." but, you know, it turns out you didn't need either. we've come to blackpool to meet mike, who tried to help legit company owners get their hands on a bounce back loan. the people who scammed the system, they should be rounding them up. they should be looking for them, hunting for them. that's taxpayers' money. mike craig ran a one—man campaign, lifting the lid on all that he says was wrong with the scheme. how big a scandal is this? it's massive. we're talking billions of pounds. and when you hear that people could just press a couple of buttons, £50,000, ship it off abroad and leave — that's wrong. it'sjust wrong.

for people who were the criminal element, there was no risk at all because they were... if they had the bank accounts in place, they could get the money the next day. however, a lot of people, genuine businesses, didn't have an account with the first initial few lenders, so some of them were waiting 6—12 months, even longer, before they actually secured bounce back loans. and they were the genuine ones and they missed out on getting the money, which was what the scheme was set up for. yet the criminals got the money on day one, day two, day three, and off they trot. where does that leave the taxpayer? stuffed for billions of pounds. back in vilnius, we switch targets. remember this guy, povilas? well, here's the thing. he was director of one

of the gang's dodgy companies. from social media, we know he's a chef — and a pretty good one, at that. he won awards at the restaurant where he used to work. but we also know the company in his name received loads of that bounce back loan money. £10 million came in and, yep, you guessed it, £10 million went out, transferred abroad — rishi's millions gone, through the bank account of a company whose director was povilas. we call the restaurant, but he doesn't work there any more. 0k.

feels like yet another dead end. time to get creative. most people probably won't know what it is, but if you're a cyclist or a runner, you will. and that's the app strava. see, strava records all of the journeys you make, whether you're running or cycling. and i wondered whether povilas might be, for example, a cyclist. so i put his name into strava and, sure enough, up it came. and it turns out he's been making journeys first thing in the morning and last thing at night. and look where it takes us — to another restaurant on the other side of town. he peddled here again and again.

just over there. nice little restaurant, smoke coming out of the chimneys. we know that povilas sometimes works there, so we'rejust going to go in, have a meal, and see if he's on shift today. wow. the menu is eye watering. it's so expensive. the only thing we could afford was the soup. we just don't know whether povilas is here, working in the kitchen. we can't see him in the kitchen, so we follow his strava route back the other way. too cold for a bike this time. looking at facebook, he's posted in a group for people who own bmws. and here's his car and the rear

light apparently isn't working. our man is on the case. and, miraculously, there it is. it's the right make. it's bmw. it's an e90. this is the car. yeah. so it's that one there, isn't it? we're really close, aren't we? we must be very close to him. he's living in this building or in this building. i mean, he could be watching us now. this man we're talking of, he works as a chef here. he doesn't have lots of money. his brother is in prison. he was the big guy. do you think there's any chance he might tell us where the money went? early the next morning, a surprise. hi, povilas. i'm angus from the bbc.

we just want to ask you where the money went. what money? the money from the bounceback loans. i don't know. your name is on a company, bart solution, yes? and that received £10 million in your name? your name. the police in britain say the directors of these companies, they must have known or they should have known. what do you say to them? i don't know anything. if i had some money or 10,000k, i didn't work two jobs here. ijust married two months ago. i worked without weekends, to buy everything for my wedding.

povilas tells us he has no idea his name was being used in this way. i really don't know what to make of that. he seems very genuine. he seems very honest. i don't think he was lying to us. but as far as he's concerned, that is the first time he's ever heard that his name is connected to the theft of £10 million now he's off to work. he does two jobs, he says. he lives in this set of flats.

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