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13.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT’s agents brokered Zimbabwe bribe proposal

A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath reveals British American Tobacco (BAT) was linked to a conspiracy to pay a bribe of between $30...

10.09.21

Smoke Screen

About Smoke Screen

Exposing lies, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

01.09.21

Global Health

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Administrative barriers in at least 10 European countries are blocking access to vital vaccines

25.08.21

Global Health

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

As Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm Mexico’s health services, gas companies have spent time, effort and money deterring hospitals from installing cheaper, more reliable on-site oxygen plants

31.07.21

Environment

Reign of fire: blazes surge on ‘protected’ Amazon land under Bolsonaro

The Bureau’s investigation also found that beef from farmers accused of illegal deforestation was still making its way into global supply chains, including those serving at least two of the world’s bi...

28.07.21

The Enablers

Money-laundering ring pushed $4billion through HSBC

Insiders have raised questions over whether HSBC appropriately informed US monitors about the ring, which was uncovered by the bank during an internal review

15.07.21

Health Inequality

Most GP surgeries refuse to register undocumented migrants despite NHS policy

Survey finds official guidelines being extensively ignored to leave hundreds of thousands facing vaccine labyrinth

13.07.21

Is Work Working?

Revealed: Thousands of care jobs pay below living wage despite promises

Many councils have pledged to pay higher rates for home care, but the Bureau has analysed thousands of job adverts and care contracts and found jobs across Britain paid less than the living wage

13.07.21

Is Work Working?

Too stressed to care: ‘We’re paid as terribly as we’re treated’

Caring can be fulfilling work, and it’s an important job, but the stress caught up with me, says Kiri Williams

09.07.21

Domestic Violence

Sarah Everard’s killer has pleaded guilty, but tough questions remain for police chiefs

The Bureau has consistently found that police forces often do not take allegations by women against male officers as seriously as they should

08.07.21

The Enablers

Justice for sale: how London courted the global super-elite

The grudges of oligarchs, dictators and their hangers-on are now routinely fought in British courts

06.07.21

Global Superbugs

The world’s hunger for meat is accelerating the rise of superbugs

The adoption of intensive farming practices in middle-income countries is estimated to account for up to a third of the increase in global use of antibiotics for livestock between 2010 and 2030

18.06.21

The Enablers

The power of money: how autocrats use London to strike foes worldwide

English courtrooms have become a battleground — and a source of powerful weapons — in fierce disputes between the tycoons and the politicians of the post-Soviet world

17.06.21

Global Superbugs

Superbug fears as supermarket pig farms escalate use of antibiotics

The use of a class of antibiotics prescribed for infections in humans more than doubled on UK pig farms between 2015 and 2019, and experts warn of a further rise

16.06.21

Global Health

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

Two of the world's largest oxygen companies have agreed to improve access to oxygen after the Bureau investigated high prices in Africa and shortages across the world

15.06.21

Domestic Violence

800 sexual misconduct allegations against police in three years

Complaints against officers in England, Wales and Scotland included rapes and sexual assaults, but only a fraction resulted in conviction or disciplinary action, the Bureau can reveal

15.06.21

Domestic Violence

Years of living in fear: police still failing partners of violent officers

Over years of investigation the Bureau has heard from thirty people who allege their police officer partners abused them

10.06.21

Big Tech

So much hot air: Twitter and Facebook let quack Covid cures spread unchecked in India

Social media platforms are failing to get to grips with a wave of dangerous misinformation targeting Indians on social media

25.05.21

Bureau victory on protecting journalists from mass surveillance

The ECHR has ruled that the UK's program of mass surveillance was not compliant with European human rights law and that journalistic material deserves special protections from interception

25.05.21

Global Health

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

Dozens of countries face severe oxygen shortages because of surging Covid-19 cases and low vaccination rates, a Bureau analysis has found

Smoke Screen: BAT’s agents brokered Zimbabwe bribe proposal

About Smoke Screen

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

Reign of fire: blazes surge on ‘protected’ Amazon land under Bolsonaro

Money-laundering ring pushed $4billion through HSBC

Most GP surgeries refuse to register undocumented migrants despite NHS policy

Revealed: Thousands of care jobs pay below living wage despite promises

Too stressed to care: ‘We’re paid as terribly as we’re treated’

Sarah Everard’s killer has pleaded guilty, but tough questions remain for police chiefs

Justice for sale: how London courted the global super-elite

The world’s hunger for meat is accelerating the rise of superbugs

The power of money: how autocrats use London to strike foes worldwide

Superbug fears as supermarket pig farms escalate use of antibiotics

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

800 sexual misconduct allegations against police in three years

Years of living in fear: police still failing partners of violent officers

So much hot air: Twitter and Facebook let quack Covid cures spread unchecked in India

Bureau victory on protecting journalists from mass surveillance

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

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