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8 February 2022
London is a battleground for Nigeria’s looted oil millions
Fortunes stolen by military dictator Sani Abacha are now being fought over in UK courts
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21 January 2022
Kazakh leader’s grandson was mystery client at collapsed ‘golden visa’ firm
Dolfin Financial went bust after being accused of misleading regulators over its ties with Nurali Aliyev, an oligarch with luxury property in London
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22 June 2021
Cummings pushed NHS to skirt funding rules for data project
Leaked emails show PM’s aide told head of NHSX ‘no delay please – just send immediately’
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22 June 2021
Health company favoured by Hancock linked to Tory donors
Shareholders in Babylon Healthcare made donations to Conservatives and Hancock’s 2019 leadership campaign
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23 February 2021
Plastic Patriots
Ineos, the controversial chemicals giant that turns fracked gas to plastics, trumpeted its return to the UK. Its billionaire owner, Jim Ratcliffe, appears to be less patriotic about his taxes
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7 February 2021
Revealed: The fossil fuel projects in line for UK support despite ban
Offshore oil drilling in Brazil, a gas pipeline in Turkmenistan and power stations in Iraq among the projects that could still be approved
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4 February 2021
Dirty white elephants
Incinerators were supposed to solve the UK’s waste crisis. Are they making it worse?
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18 January 2021
UK helped arm Brazilian police during Rio’s deadliest year on record
The UK government facilitated arms sales which went to a police force that killed almost 2,000 civilians – twice as many as police in the US – in a single year
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4 December 2020
Revealed: Northern Ireland officials used dodgy numbers to secure biogas bonanza
Documents obtained by SourceMaterial show how a tiny tweak in a ministry submission to Brussels unlocked hundreds of millions in subsidies
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10 November 2020
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Kazakh Millions
A new investigation solves a five-year riddle—and raises more questions about secretive investments in London
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10 October 2020
Muck for Brass: Watchdog shuts down £6.5m biogas gaming scheme
Muck for Brass: Watchdog shuts down £6.5m biogas gaming following SourceMaterial investigation
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