Gold Mafia – Episode 4 – Have The King With You I Al Jazeera Investigations

foreign episode 4 of gold Mafia we love the gangster lifestyle are you loved by the gun who died by the gun the biggest challenge Zimbabwe now faces is the gold Mafia Al jazeera's investigative unit infiltrates the rival gangs that control Africa's gold as long as you grease the wheels in Africa there's no issue it's failing that's what it is not like somebody can question or anything former members of the gold Mafia speak exclusively to the eye unit the cold Mafia is bigger than the government bigger than any of the authorities they kill you don't they exactly undercover journalists poses gangsters who want to launder more than 100 million US Dollars this funds are substantial the eye unit obtains thousands of confidential documents that expose how organized crime uses gold to launder money you've sold it to a Refinery and the money got paid in the bank account so it's very being that way once it's refined it's practically brand new gold [Music] final episode a member of the gold Mafia goes into hiding they will come after me get a given and I stay in there I would be dead by the time this hits the first five minutes of play and undercover reporters learn about the Godfathers of the gold Mafia you won't believe this either of us can't get into this continent when you walk you must always have the king with you the president [Music] [Applause] [Music] in South Africa money laundering is like the new in thing for the rich people everyone is doing it it's just who can hide it the best way daud Khan was part of the gold mafia's money laundering operation for over six years he's now in hiding after agreeing to provide evidence to the eye unit it's a scary scary world that I'm about to Embark into purely for just voicing the truth of what's really transpiring putting names of people that were involved in this conspiracy [Music] when this documentary breaks in South Africa will be the most wanted person in South Africa from government officials to the underworld to my own brother 's brother is Muhammad Khan he's one of South Africa's most successful money launderers [Music] he's also known as Mo dollars I've worked with him I mean we Brothers I try to look at the good I tried to be the best brother to my brother and I failed at that I have to face the consequences for that at the end of the day and my consequences now is I have to hide from my own family I've never seen my mother again in my life she dies tomorrow I wouldn't even know I can't attend the funeral [Music] me and him came from nothing wouldn't even pay electricity we had nothing nothing [Music] before this business we had a quite a normal life I think five six years into our marriage he started doing things that was questionable and it used to come in every day with money and then I used to ask him but what is this his passion became fast cars luxury Brands and traveling showing his wealth creating fancier clothes it became name brands Rolexes or Target watches [Music] yes you used to tell me you must wear clothes to show people you are a millionaire as the years go by the money is bigger the millions are coming in it was part of our lifestyle just to do whatever we want Dao joins his brother's asset management company in 2011. I became a permanent employee of Mohammed and his partner at the time soil Giovanni Mr money laundering they worked together until his death in 2020. [Music] what they were facilitating on a daily basis was hawala as they would call it or money laundering is it be commonly known as Zumba becomes aware of the company his brother keeps when I just joined mohammed's business Mohammed and soy led a meeting at the Michelangelo Cigar Lounge out in sandton the Michelangelo is one of johannesburg's elite hotels after a couple of minutes two individuals came in they created soil and Mohammed in myself and they announced that individual that we were expecting would be arriving shortly and in a mere few seconds he was escorted into the cigar Lodge bodyguard then headed to the door locked the door off Mormon soil then proceeded on having a meeting doubt has no idea who the visitor is after they meet Imam actually on the way to the concert Google the name Paul De Bland and when I Googled the name tauri plant I actually picked up the individual is on the FBI's top 10 most wanted individuals daud Ibrahim is an Indian gangster and drug kingpin he heads the organized crime syndicate D company a few months later the D company Dawn turns up again Muhammad happened to invite myself and my family on a trip to Dubai in the Cigar Lounge in the jumeira beach hotel with Mohammed and soil once again a meeting with the very same individual plants by it with the amount of security that was there and the way things were being handled from these individuals you could see it was someone that was trying to stay out of the public eye Dowdy Ibrahim is accused of being The Mastermind behind bombings in India [Music] leaving over 250 people dead 700 others injured and property worth 20. this is someone that's really wanted by the FBI yet alone are the countries around the world that is able to come into South Africa freely walk into a public setting such as the Michelangelo then go into Jamaica Beach Hotel in the United Arab Emirates it has cameras at almost every corner today I saw also a question how is it possible Mo dollars and his wife are guests at a birthday party attended by the king of the Zulu Nation the largest ethnic group in South Africa picking good roles Valentini who was a solo King a very influential person when he was alive he has passed on this is an individual that controls the Zulu public of South Africa in general he is very well respected and people look up to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] mom it was at the birthday party socializing with the king with his family and with the various dignitaries that were also invited to the party and Mohammed also shared a very elaborate gift the gift is an uncut diamond Kings well atheny proved useful to Mo dollars when Jacob Zuma was South Africa's president he's incredibly influential as the king of zululand effectively he is obviously very closely connected to Jacob Zuma as well Jacob Zuma's very famously as the traditionalist and he would be sort of paying fealty and allegiance to King Goodwill zelatini it's a very same individual it was also got the capability of pulling strings within government to get decisions made and Jacob Zuma and family heavily rely on his support I was very shocked and surprised by the caliber of people that moment and soil were meeting with I mean I was new so I didn't really know what to expect [Music] there's no president the head of state and like either of us can't get to on this continent Aleister Mathias is a gold Trader he designs money laundering schemes for African leaders through swazilander King is a close friend of mine the Zambia president's course friend of my friend the UIC Congo the president has invited me several times there to come and build refinery so these can help people like us to give money to him [Music] Mr Stanley leads the eye unit undercover team [Music] reporters are posing as gangsters who need to launder 100 million dollars in dirty cash from China Garner president you and McMillan is a gold Smuggler from Zimbabwe they call him Mr Gold they refer to Zimbabwe's president manangagwa by his initials ET since then Edie is my partner I can't say it in public because he's sanctioned I as well three months ago sitting with them chatting them gago's protection proves useful [Music] good news is whatever I told him he did you know that eh you see him when I was getting hurt that's it because yeah yeah yeah yeah and he did it he did he did it within two weeks he fixed everything president Managua Ed came to macmillan's Aid in a dispute with John manguchika the governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Sia's I think he's dirty we need to find a mind he went and fix it I'm serious hmm these connections come at a price money every month you just get a partner you just better go so much money a month and he just sits back and he's happy don't care that's what happens [Music] who did we meet with [Music] Miss sin is Mr Stanley's financial advisor she says they've already had discussions with a gold Trader in Zimbabwe [Music] you met a white guy [Laughter] Hubert Angel is Zimbabwe's presidential Envoy and Senior diplomat he's also an Evangelical pastor and self-proclaimed profit Ricky Doolin is in the Diplomatic Mafia through marriage he's known as Pastor Ricky and his Angel's sidekick at the good news Church [Music] Angel claims he can perform miracles his weekly performances draw thousands of believers if I be a prophet of God let me record money appear now Miracles are happening one Miracle makes money appear in the bank accounts of his followers I recover what the enemy has stolen from you in the name of Jesus I decree and declare Miracle money Miracle money The Happening is happening he dismisses you and MacMillan as a husband and says he knows someone better suited to launder Mr Stanley's money oh my God the right there is anything is I was sleeping on five million Scott Milan was the one that uh this one wait for me do me a favor whatever you did listen to what I said don't invest Rebecca okay bye they will tell you just lies you'll invest you lose all your money do not trust any black person it's good that we know it's Mac Miller because MacMillan doesn't control nothing this was his worker cleaning his car number one yeah number one without God we can just call it right now what is his name Scott Cooper that's him his Newfound wealth is a reward for his loyalty holes of course is um and the president yeah Scott sakapuania is a key fundraiser for manangagwa's election campaign he's taken over macmillan's moniker so I've got some some good investors for you here they're hearing you already so from January what have you gotten right now what have you sold six times from January 10 months okay so if someone wants to invest with you what do we what what happens all right so if you get cash from someone you give them 10 per month for every money they give you yes 10 all right but it's guaranteed they will get those those uh the fees how do you move their money back to them okay okay foreign [Music] deals mostly with president managua's son I can put you straight and touch with him that's no problem he's a friend of mine can you meet him no problem what his name is in Emerson too McMillan was with the president shortly after he was elected [Music] he said good to see you my old friend and I said very good seeing well done your position and said no problem it's me tell it MacMillan and his father have been jailed for gold smuggling you won't believe this my wife is the president I did 60 days in prison and my partner is the new person foreign ERS don't mention it sends a message don't open your mouth your life will get worse than it is I said are you kidding me book Miller notices that Mr Stanley is wearing a Rolex watch so there's still Daytona ahead my dad always used to say to me you always Gotta Wear the best watch because everyone looks to see your watch I have the Submariner [Music] I have the gold Submariner and I have two presidents [Music] gold studded president relics because the sun ran into date and had to pay the date off so gave me the Rolex I paid the debt off and he said please don't tell my dad and I think man you're joking I've got the dad's watch this blue face with gold studs all around have all that in a safe and I run yes yeah it's a fake a fake have you ever seen a fake tester have you ever seen a fake Castle [Music] it was a working day towards a very late afternoon we had security details coming into the office and telling us that they need to do a walkabout on the property dawood was working at the offices of his brother's firm we asked why and they said they just need to do a walkabout because the president is on their way and they need to ensure security Road got shut down the motorcade pulled in Jacob zuba arrived and it was merely just a stop by to say hello but Muhammad wasn't there they didn't ask us If Mohammed was they and he didn't even step out of a car for a matter of 30 seconds because Mom it wasn't day and he departed soon after [Music] that's the level of respect of the relationship that you've got a president of the country popping by to say hi Mo dollars builds connections to the ruling African National Congress or ANC the key person within this relationship is tendana tandana and Betsey is a business and political fixer his connections come from his uncle who died in 2021 his uncle is an economics advisor to Nelson Mandela after which he becomes the head of UBS Bank in South Africa he's also the head of the South African branch of HSBC and he is just generally very well politically connected and then Betson name goes a long way in southern African countries and then Donna utilizes at Dewey's benefit Mo dollars company Salt Asset Management [Music] appoints tandana and Betsy as a business agent emails between Mo dollars and tandana reveal a number of collaborations and you'd be the middle man in connecting the dots to ensure something is sourced and It materializes ultimately into a deal [Music] tandana is required to attract business worth at least two billion dollars a year he'll be paid a commission we've implemented a mandate allowing dandana embeds it to broker deals between salt asset management and government structures whether it be for utility services procurement projects as well as trade Finance projects bandana refers to Mo dollars as boss tintana is a black individual in South Africa had the credibility and the capability to get into doors that would be close to a non-black person he opened doors ultimately to business Muhammad would never have the potential to ever see on his own tandana then arranges for mode dollars to have a meeting that will Propel his money laundering operation to new levels [Music] so Muhammad met with the guptas the introduction was made by Tinder name Betsy the three brothers play a major role in corrupting the South African state the gupta's new Muhammad was they knew he was capable as a money launderer it's just not in Dana brokering with you the gupstas are closely linked to president Jacob Zuma [Music] a celebration for one of the country's most politically connected families the guptas government ministers attend a four-day wedding for the daughter of one of the brothers guests from India had arrived at a South African military Air Base [Music] in that plane was allowed to land there because connections to president Jacob Zuma I don't think so at all I don't think so this is that's something some unknown reason are trying to create this controversy believe me and the furore didn't seem to deter high-profile businessmen former and current government ministers from attending I've come to enjoy myself and I'm enjoying myself during the period of Jacob Zuma's Administration you had individuals businessmen who effectively gained control of the state through bribing officials and and generating a relationship with the president and the president's family it's called State capture the state starts to generate its own policy in order to generate corrupt benefit for these politicians so you have all these decisions being made about how to spend taxpayers money it has nothing to do with the value it generated the taxpayer but only for the value it's going to generate for the criminal Enterprise Paul Holden is one of the chief investigators for the zondo commission an inquiry set up to examine State capture under Jacob Zuma what I investigated for the commission was the extent to which the Gupta family decided what policies were going to be pursued by different state Enterprises that pushed particular procurement policies Holden presented to the bank statements to the commission with billions of rents paid to Gupta entities he dealt with about 250 contracts that were awarded to the Gupta Enterprises [Music] regiments Capital plays a central role in state capture the Gupta family directed State contracts towards companies like regiments actually we were able to trace about a billion Rand was paid to regiments over time the achievements is politically connected to various government officials or ex-government officials this is a firm that will basically look at assisting government officials to legitimize business deals tenders looting State capture and getting the funds out through bank accounts they would then utilize a service of certain Brokers such as Muhammad to then launder that money out of the country Mo dollars has a man inside regiments and delay nahonya was a founding director of regiments he brings business to Mo dollars [Music] we're starting business case development we end up with implementation and we want to be in that full cycle is very well integrated into the government departments a lot of close relatives of his sitting on state-owned entities and plays an advisory role to a lot of government members ministers past presidents and I'm led to believe also the current president a property development by regiments attracts Mo dollars attention it is the arguably the single most important site in Johannesburg and and certainly in in many respects in South Africa as well Mo dollars meets a senior regiment's director they discuss investing his company's funds in the development [Music] the relationship you've got with tindana Mohammed and deali and all the government officials had been in and out of our offices is a very close relationship between them they would refer to it as the promo code [Music] a un conference on climate change brings president manangagwa and the Diplomatic Mafia to Glasgow their meeting undercover reporters in a restaurant Ricky Doolin is concerned they'll be overheard Mr Jones Mr Jones [Music] number one or Mr Jones refers to president manangagwa the first family has an affectionate name for Ambassador angel s call from their son releasing the connection relationship [Music] dulham brings up the money Mr Stanley needs to pay for the meeting with the president remember the appreciation yes angel will deliver an initial payment of two hundred thousand dollars to the president what we're going to do is take all of that initiation give it to Mr Jones [Music] say this is to appreciate you for welcoming our guests and having a meeting so that's what we want to do so that [Applause] Mr Jones can feel appreciated sorry how much for Mr John we wanted to give [Music] oh okay well even if you can transfer money that took at least it's for 200 was kind of what want the giving or even if I can do because you are planning to translate a 100 today yes is it still possible Angel who do and calls his principal his second in line so then maybe as it goes along each one that you give us I mean make sure Mr Jones will just keeps saying this is more appreciation but some of that's also for some some will stay with the principle but make sure ambassy is not the first one the first one going straight to Mr Jones [Music] is the president the president in the governor of the zooping this one here is a gold Trader and money launderer it's also the founder of a church and calls himself brother Paul [Music] so this is the first lady is me the wife is firstly wife of manga oh sorry this is uh for your permanent Annie takes undercover reporters to his base in Dubai he does business with President Managua in Zimbabwe he's a very tough man ruthless man he's toughness they call him the crocodile Johnny is a member of the undercover team is posing as the hawala man a black market money Trader friendly but he takes time so this is his number I call him tempo who works at him I always do how much we have done kill him him from that yeah he has to be informed I was just writing a message here this is the president's number yeah yeah yeah correct the president he has to talk directly inform him dear sir I got delayed in Dubai has had to undergo and when I was in hospital yeah I've been filming [Music] patney's loyalty to the president buys him protection it's something the undercover team could also share we will have the protection you can visit I know so many presidents the biggest protection because the president of all those presidents is called as the biggest protection so that's why it's important to have the form that Faith Mr Stanley's deal to pay patently 10 million dollars to launder his money appears to have the president's blessing only yeah do we have to play episodes no no 100 you don't make the authority accomplished but he knows of course he knows yes but he can't uh he will not talk to openly this is like the the norm of life the incentives the fees appreciation appreciation uses someone he trusts to pay the president we will meet him he will take it with you also every two weeks is dead every fortnight he is there at the state house he always attribute our position when you walk you must always have the king with you the president researcher Paul Holden is back at the state capture inquiry Holden explained how the Gupta family loaned money gained through government contracts [Music] zondo commission publishes its findings everything the money laundering networks used by the Gupta Enterprise were complex well-established and embedded in a pre-existing milieur of criminality and wrongdoing as soon as funds move from South Africa offshore it becomes increasingly difficult to access those sort of bank statements and it creates effectively a blind spot the commission has not been able to trace These funds to their phone or destinations we always suspect that it went back to the governors or one of their their lieutenants we couldn't ever prove that but the money launderers did make one mistake that's an incredible breakthrough very late for day of our investigations [Music] is the South African company that pays Griffin line trading in Dubai almost quarter of a million dollars direct payments are spot Ted by investigators online trading we know 100 is controlled by the governors this is the first payment we see going through this network you know all the state capture money stolen from the state going to this network and actually exit internal and Gupta recount the commission identifies that valer's own's director but bakari is just a nominee a front for the real owner of the company the zondo commission also names another company used as a buffer to confuse banking regulators valazone was paid State capture funds via an entity called zoccupied [Music] were really key to our investigation of the guptas because they were some of the only links we saw going direct from the local money laundering Network directly to the governors that was a huge break for us it was like the Goldust fine this proves that this is the network that they are definitely using and it is going to benefit the governors the zondo commission did not discover who was Behind These companies [Music] being unable to identify any relationship or connection between the Gupta Enterprise or any other part of the laundering networks and the directors of Valor Zone and socubite foreign cache of documents features both file a Zone and zokubite they reveal that valerzone receives funds from a zokubite account controlled by m Khan valazone is the company making direct payments to the guptas that payment was done by Mohammed with him being so paranoid it was like only he and the individuals themselves would know Mohammed facilitated the payments through the guptas and done the payments out for them [Music] humans include the company's bank statements invoices and the idea of valerzone's director who boss of Valor Zone and zokubite is Mo dollars whose money Trail leads to the guptas it approves our working theory that the guptas were using re-existing money launching entity the copters were using a network run by this Muhammad Khan person as Madonna's person which I find you know incredibly intriguing State capture here has been a key contributed to a lot of the funds it was laundered out of the country by Muhammad I have the piggybacking of existing accounts under other clients names or going through marmaden soil's own companies fictitious companies that they've set up themselves [Music] um undercover reporters present a fictitious proposal to launder 1.2 billion dollars of Dirty Money by building a casino in Zimbabwe all we are going to do is Hotel is and so the god side of this that's that's one of the best thing you can come up with plan is to build on Prime land overlooking Victoria Falls it's considered one of the seven wonders of the natural world Angel says the president has land nearby let's squeeze this one question right I found a nice place in Victoria Falls in the town picture of horse itself you have a lot of land that is on Divine because you can you can understand uh that then it's easy to dispose of it just go like let's take this let's put it this way let's put it this way I think you understand when I yeah say that so it becomes easy so I can tell them about the [Music] to build the casino Mr Stanley will need to smuggle into Zimbabwe a huge volume of dirty cash from Hong Kong Angel proposes flying in the cache on the president's plane four they use Mr Stanley's private jet thank you hey Mike hello angel calls the First Lady auxilia manangagua those people that want to move kids want to know people riding the planes will they provide the place the president is referred to as father [Music] everyone [Music] uh [Music] president has not yet agreed to use his plane to smuggle Stanley's money sometimes you'll be busy but we spoke about so I'm just gonna present it today okay okay I'll do that I'll do that that is that is how do you say to you what you want to do is happening all right the president [Music] so I kept on asking but it's possible to do this right 30 years anything yes [Laughter] when Zimbabwe's president travels there is a protocol that airport staff need to observe they'll be guys from president's office to be coming then they say they want to talk to the supervisor cleopas chidodo is a security supervisor at Harare Airport he works for the civil aviation Authority and then they say my friends we are foreign [Music] those three happens very often uh they were big the dodo recalls when the former president's wife Grace Mugabe smuggled Ivory out of Zimbabwe she wanted to do things kill elephants stuff like that which has and then they will prepare the eyeball and then it will come to the airport as the cargo tennis if it ever comes and the supervisor is making some questions and the people say is no one asked the eye unit obtains a document which appears to confirm that the first family and its Entourage are exempt from being searched at the airport easy you interacting with his family then the president and his family are not safe [Music] cadodo says Grace Mugabe used the protocol to smuggle diamonds [Music] and then they select some nice demos they put in play hey there was a diamond that was everywhere everywhere so a plane will go there and take them and come to the airport and it goes straight to Dubai no papers no one so they were making money who Chris yeah it comes to the airport and then they say this this play is for the first family you see so they met a lot of men [Music] Mr Stanley needs to pay a fee to meet president manangagwa Angel makes a phone call to find out how so like the weather is the business account he's speaking to someone close to the president foreign foreign [Music] there is always we do the telephone number [Music] the company's Mo dollars uses to launder State capture funds valazone and zokubite send the money offshore through sassven bank the transactions were facilitated by Hussein shinara he was in charge of the bank's foreign exchange payments he was also on Mo dollars payroll he would basically ensure that his staff is pushing through this work unquestioned to ensure that the payment is done through the satisfaction of obviously Muhammad emails include private Communications between Hussein and mo dollars what's inquiring from Hussein to give him balances on faluson she is thirty thousand and fifty four dollars the balances indicate how much Dirty Money can be laundered through each account this occupied balance to shanxi 26 272 dollars Muhammad replies to Hussein damn too little I need to up it [Music] is an example right we've got now follows only Spain angza foreign begins when hang Joe yada a Chinese textile company invoices valazone for a consignment of towels worth 380 thousand dollars [Music] no goods are sent but Mo dollars pays the invoice in installments based on how much he needs to launder a transfer of fifty thousand dollars and other transfers have left only thirty thousand outstanding that's all that's left to launder on that invoice the sum can be topped up when another fake invoice is sent by hangjoyada nobody's gonna ask anything because it's already on the system all the compliance checks has already been done on the first payment just let it go through the messages refer to a third company involved in the money laundering [Music] Coral balance 68104 he says that's good he mentions Carl General tradings as well which is a company that came up in our investigation so exactly what you know he's describing orally what I've seen in the documents and in the Paper Trails it's almost perfectly the three companies are identified by the zondo commission on state capture as working together to launder the gupta's money follow Zone soccer bite cuddle they all played the same role you couldn't utilize the same account on a daily basis you'd spread your funds across different accounts different times across a week or a month zokubite and coral have accounted other Banks as well as sasfin cooling accounts that receive illicit funds from multiple sources and then transfer to valerzone Mo dollars admits wrongdoing involving Coral foreign or into another entity and then moved that abroad Hong Kong and Mainland China are the destinations for State capture funds when we traveled to Hong Kong and to Guangzhou China you've got Morgan soil that's got individuals it's working for them that's running cash houses for them in those countries in Hong Kong's Kowloon District a company claiming to provide secretarial services plays another role we would send them the details we need a company open preferably we'll give them three company names that we want please Mo dollars sends a request to Hashmi secretarial services foreign offers hundreds of companies to choose from you can basically walk into their offices open up companies you just basically giving him signatures [Music] two three days later you go back you pick up your box that contains all the original documents it's a little green box that you receive and in the green box you've got your certificates of the company with the stamps of the company and with all the seals for on on the certificates and you name it the documents reveal Mo dollars launders money into 55 companies in Hong Kong and China some are named by an HSBC internal investigation as among clients that received more than 240 million dollars of Gupta money they will go into PC Bank on Dayton Road they're the guy there the connection there there's relationships in HSBC specifically where they were able to get accounts opened in other individuals names and they would then manage those accounts from South Africa the zondo commission signs that over 600 000 of State capture funds are pooled in zokubite and then moved offshore most of it goes through violazone which launder's 1.8 million dollars into offshore accounts in six months mostly in China and Hong Kong it's very commonly understood that if you're a South African institution and money goes abroad into Hong Kong their money is gone you know it's gone forever a ledger from as early as 2012 shows that in just four months Mo dollars laundered almost 40 million dollars from South Africa into Hong Kong and China this is pointing to the direction of ultimately where it's destined to go to once the money hits the foreign account it's cleared it then gets distributed according to whoever requires the funds on the other end the stuff that you've discovered in the stuff that we've discovered with this under commission is just how vulnerable our financial institutions are to capture and how easy it was for this money laundering to happen that's an incredibly worrying thing to acknowledge these systems haven't worked we haven't caught the wrong doers we haven't stopped the money flow [Music] Alistair Mathias designs structures specifically to hide stake capture funds an initial word of advice for our undercover reporter put Mr Stanley's money in her name I buy a lot of stuff in mining on behalf of someone they Trust do government contracts extenders construction of Roads improvements supplying things oil this stuff there all the policies get taken everyone allows me to do all my other stuff really so the government contracts is the way you you reward the politicians basically see what happens commercially Commissions in international world of anti-corruption is basically someone that's the bribery so when he says commissions I hear bribes I was the second oldest woman you're getting 10 percent um Matthias acts as a bank for corrupt leaders I Bond the commission for that so for example Ghana government but that is holding I get the contract [Music] I subcontracted to you under living dollar contract Ghana government pays 100 million I give it to you and you say it's 80 million the contract is inflated 20 million dollars above its real cost een Matthias Banks the 15 million for the corrupt politicians until they need it [ __ ] [Applause] and wherever they wanted us up that is the way in which corruption is facilitated to create the corrupt funds the crop commission is exactly how he's described and then overpayer and create an extra bunch of money that can be used to pay a politician the most important thing for me in Africa is people trust me all the political trust that whatever money I have on this is that's incredible footage that's incredible footage it really is wow I'm Amazed [Music] [Laughter] The Diplomatic Mafia is trying to find a way for undercover reporters to pay a bribe to meet with president manangagua Angel has a British account I don't know is it easier is it quicker is it basketball first he needs proof of payment it seems [Music] Ricky Doolan provides an invoice for partial payment of the bribe it's described as a fee for marketing consultation by his British Media Company okay I think my watch is close to 50. now it's more they're giving us the UK which is not a good idea you're going to be liable for trucks yeah that's where the biggest problem is I've got another account which is my my soul account he offers to use the account of the Angel organization Millions a payment will provide everything Mr Stanley needs this is our country yeah everything you want to get in here you you get a and it is protected you okay what about that what about this thing it's certain it's just you with your beauty okay so the whole lot to your yeah even if you do it trade it really whatever it doesn't matter Angel worries the dirty cash will be laundered elsewhere the best partner for Mr Stanley is the president because the difference is when you go to another place someone may be another white guy not a black guy he's your partner yeah in this case that is okay so you guys are you are really really struggled by things that mine we're really mine Spirit from experience yeah but what is you've experienced that when a lot of experience I'm the least person anyone would suspect to do okay foreign [Music] in August 2022 it emerges that South African authorities are investigating Mo dollars [Music] they've Frozen his assets yeah they've Frozen the assets they know of he's got his millions all over the world he will not be short of money for a lifetime he's believed to be in Dubai [Music] so tell me I'm not going to go down with little I want to go down big and then I said are you mad just leave it now let it go and I'll let it go you never let it go never gold leaf tobacco and Simon rudland are also being investigated by the South African authorities kamlesh patney is setting up gold operations in Venezuela after helping president Nicolas Maduro let's send uh 500 pages then they said okay you know faster you would the new hotel so I'll have to fly there to meet the the president president Ewan McMillan is no longer Zimbabwe's Mr Gold says he's given up bribing politicians I will never get on that road again pay them pay and you pay and you pay and you pay and you pay and you pay and you pay like and you suck and you think this is just so much money why am I [ __ ] paying this much money the undercover team do not pay the bribe to meet president Managua right when you guys are ready I understand we meet and we do this maybe it's next month whenever you're serious we do it what you are presenting is a risky and somebody's trying to help you let's look for some other time I'm through your guy I'm gonna help you water Latif still lives in South Africa around us and he goes but I believe he needs to put out the fire but he puts out fire do you know that Khan is in a safe house [Music] for me to be talking like this openly with my face on camera they are gonna look at retaliation so I'm definitely have to go into hiding Mo dollars warns that if Dowd became a whistleblower the response could be deadly why why do those people do they kill you don't they exactly do you think they're gonna leave you alone but do you think they're really Gonna Leave You Alone who are you to them these are individuals that has the capability of governments and their security services to be able to trace people to look for individuals find them and and take them out it's not only myself that's it in danger from talking out but it's gonna be my entire family for an entire lifetime I had two assassination attempts on myself last year sorry [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music]

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Length: 72min 36sec (4356 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 14 2023