Long Reads
For two years, the I-Unit investigated sexual abuse complaints at British universities, revealing academics at some of the most prominent universities in the UK are allowed to continue teaching despite multiple complaints of abusive and drunken behaviour, sexual harassment or coercive control.
This is the story of what the people targeted by the academics have gone through, and how universities have continuously failed to protect their students from sexual misconduct by staff.
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17 Aug 2021 | 26 min read
The rise and fall of the Oligarch-maker
How one mysterious financier came to sit at the top table of oligarchs and power.
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10 Aug 2021 | 37 min read
How a convicted criminal can buy a famous English football club
The I-Unit goes undercover to show how English football clubs can become vehicles to launder the proceeds of crime.
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4 Aug 2021 | 36 min read
Agaléga: A secret base and India’s claim to power
How the construction of an airstrip and jetty on a remote Mauritian island reveals a rising India that plans to flex its muscles as a regional superpower
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2 Feb 2021 | 28 min read
The gangster, the general and the prime minister
The story of how Haris Ahmed, one of the Bangladesh's most notorious gangsters, came to have the protection of the army of his country and the loyalty of a leader.
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2 May 2019 | 16 min read
North Korea: Chemistry, a killing, and then karaoke
Meet the man suspected of concocting the poison that killed North Korean leader’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam.
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How I exposed the politicians willing to sell passports in Cyprus
13 Oct 2020 | 29 min read
An inside look into undercover operations on Cyprus’ golden passport scheme.
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Cyprus’s dirty secrets
26 Aug 2020 | 20 min read
Al Jazeera’s I-Unit looks at what a leak of confidential documents tells us about Cyprus’ citizenship by investment scheme.
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Anatomy of a Bribe: A deep dive into an underworld of corruption
1 Dec 2019 | 26 min read
An Al Jazeera investigation into the corrupt power brokers and global business elites defrauding the Namibian people.
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Diplomats for sale: How an ambassadorship was bought and lost
26 Nov 2019 | 29 min read
The story of Ali Reza Monfared, the Iranian who tried to buy diplomatic immunity after embezzling millions of dollars.