Insurance giant Marsh signs on for environmentally disastrous pipeline project

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Migrant fruit pickers charged thousands in illegal fees to work on UK farms

Labourers from Nepal say they paid third-party agencies as much as £3,000 to secure six-month job

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Big Tobacco

Paid protesters, free lunches and backroom chats: Inside the menthol lobbying machine

Menthol cigarette makers have tried to stoke fears among Black smokers as part of a campaign against legislation at a federal, state and even city level

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The Enablers

BlackRock ploughed UK pension funds into Putin’s war chest

Asset-management giant has earned over $1bn from shareholdings in Russian companies since 2014 annexing of Crimea

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Big Tech

US investment firms prop up ad revenue for Russian propaganda sites

Yandex, a company owned almost entirely by Western investors is still helping sites pushing false Russian claims make thousands of dollars a day through on-site adverts

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