The I-Unit reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money.
Football middlemen tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal’s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use “dirty tricks” to deceive the football authorities.
The I-Unit’s undercover reporters reach the brink of striking a deal for a fictitious criminal to buy and launder money through Derby County FC, one of England’s oldest football clubs.
The Men who Sell Football is the prequel to The Cyprus Papers Undercover investigation, released in October 2020.
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Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit wins at British Sports Journalism Awards
March 2022
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit wins at British Sports Journalism Awards
The I-Unit wins at British Journalism Awards
December 2021
The I-Unit wins at British Journalism Awards. The Men Who Sell Football picked up the Sports Journalism award.
