HOW TO ROB AFRICA
ON THE TRAIL OF AFRICA'S DIRTY CASH
featuring Zimbabwe's own STANLEY KWENDA
directed by CLIVE PATTERSON
executive producer RON MCCULLAGH
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2012
commisoning editor
DIARMUID JEFFREYS
for
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH
executive producer
RON MCCULLAGH
presenters
ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS
and
STANLEY KWENDA
director
CLIVE PATTERSON
production manager
SELINA KAY

Why does the Western world feed Africa with one hand while taking from it with the other?

Africa is rich in natural resources that are being exploited for big profits, but the money is rarely used for the benefit of the people. Instead it goes to line the pockets of corrupt officials who then often smuggle it out to be deposited in secret offshore bank accounts in the developed world.

So who facilitates these transactions? And how and why does the developed world make it so easy to launder this dirty cash?

In this revealing investigation produced for Al Jazeera’s People & Power series, Stanley Kwenda and the Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, set off to find out.

Posing as a corrupt Zimbabwean official and his lawyer, their probe takes them deep into the murky world of 'corporate service providers' - experts in the formation of company structures that allow the corrupt to circumvent lax international money laundering rules.