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He's the financial mastermind who laundered money for the world's most dangerous terrorists and criminals.
His operations stretched across the globe, helping everyone from Mexican drug cartels to bikie gangs hide their criminal profits. He also operated right here in Australia.
He evaded capture for decades until an unprecedented international police operation, initiated by Australia, set out to take him down.
With exclusive access, Four Corners takes you inside this extraordinary undercover investigation.
They are the hidden workforce kept behind closed doors.
Domestic workers, in Australia, living in slave like conditions and made to work around the clock.
This powerful Four Corners reveals disturbing cases of extreme overwork and underpayment and explains why those responsible are getting away with it.
For four long years Islamic State ruled its "caliphate" from its capital, the city of Raqqa.
IS propaganda painted it as a pure paradise and extremists travelled from around the globe to join the terror group.
Now the city is giving up its secrets.
On Four Corners Middle East correspondent Matt Brown goes on an intense journey into the city freed from the Islamic State dictatorship.
Secret parties, sly booze and slinky cocktail dresses are a long way from the conservative images usually associated with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For decades the Republic's morals police have enforced strict rules that seem to cover just about everything, from dog ownership, which is banned, to clothing.
Drinking alcohol is punishable with 40 lashes. Repeat offenders can face the death penalty.
Despite the rules, many young people in Iran are rebelling. They're taking their lives in their hands and defying the regime to party in secret.
Across Australia, farmers, small businesses, government planners and major corporations have stopped waiting for politicians to decide whether climate change is real. They're acting now.
Mounting evidence suggests our changing climate is having an impact on everything - from what we grow, eat and drink, to house prices and the cost of insurance.
Four Corners has travelled from coast to coast to chart how Australians are adapting to the new weather challenges.
The numbers tell the story. Australia's population is growing fast. Across the country, we've added almost 400,000 people in the last year alone.
The populations of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have expanded by nearly three million extra people in the last 10 years.
And we're feeling the strain.
It's time for the nation to have a conversation about how big Australia is going to grow.
The sex scandal that has engulfed American film producer Harvey Weinstein triggered headlines around the world and prompted a searing discussion about the treatment of women.
Much of the attention has focussed on the actresses who say they were preyed upon by the movie mogul.
Behind the scenes, there were other women, work colleagues and employees, who allege that Harvey Weinstein used his power to abuse them.
They kept their experiences secret for decades, fearing legal action and reprisal. Now they are speaking out.
Australia's superannuation retirement savings pool is enormous.
At two and a half trillion dollars, it's one of the largest in the world.
But there are fears that even that huge sum of money won't be enough.
Millennials are entering a very different workforce from the one that existed 30 years ago when compulsory superannuation was adopted.
In the broader economy, it's estimated that between three and six billion dollars' worth of super entitlements per year are not being paid.
Now there are calls to take a fresh look at super and make some major reforms.
The Australia Taxation Office is a formidable enforcer with extraordinary powers.
It can raid your home or business without a warrant, it can compel you to answer questions and treat you as guilty until proven innocent.
While there's strong public support for a crackdown on major multinational corporations to force them to pay their fair share, there is growing concern that the Tax Office is targeting people a long way from the big end of town.
In a major joint Four Corners/Fairfax investigation, reporter Adele Ferguson puts the actions of the Tax Office under the microscope, examining how it uses its extensive powers.
"I was instrumental. I was at the heart of it." Chris Wylie, former Cambridge Analytica director of research
Four Corners brings you the undercover investigation that has left social media giant Facebook reeling through the unmasking of the secretive political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Four months in the making, this ITN investigation for Channel 4 in Britain used hidden cameras to reveal the tactics used by the UK firm Cambridge Anayltica to influence elections and undermine the democratic process in several countries.
There are millions being made in the Australian marijuana business but these entrepreneurs and investors aren't risking jail to make their fortunes.
They're betting big on the home grown medicinal marijuana industry and riding the "pot stock" boom.
But with patients struggling to access cannabis products, Four Corners investigates who is making money out of the marijuana boom.
Four Corners charts the rise of this industry which has grown from nowhere in just a few years.
Today, 60% of Australian adults are classified as overweight or obese. By 2025 that figure is expected to rise to 80%.
Many point the finger at sugar - which we're consuming in enormous amounts - and the food and drink industry that makes and sells the products fuelled by it.
Despite doctors' calls for urgent action, there's been fierce resistance by the industry to measures aimed at changing what we eat and drink, like the proposed introduction of a sugar tax.
On Monday night Four Corners investigates the power of Big Sugar and its influence on public policy.
On Monday night, the young woman at the centre of one of Australia's most controversial rape trials talks to Four Corners.
She was a teenage virgin on her first night out in Sydney's King Cross. He was the son of a wealthy night club owner. They met on the dance floor. Minutes later, he ushered her out into a laneway.
What happened next has had devastating consequences for both of them.
This shocking account serves as a serious warning about the need to understand what consent is and the consequences of getting it wrong.
HSBC is one of the world’s largest and most powerful financial institutions with offices on five continents, including in Australia.
It likes to spruik its financial might and global reach.
Behind the corporate gloss, it has a far less attractive reputation.
The bank has been at the centre of several of the biggest financial scandals uncovered this century.
Mobile phones, smartphones and tablets have revolutionised the way we communicate but the technology we are addicted to has had toxic consequences.
China produces approximately 90% of the world’s consumer electronics. The factories making the components for these electronic goods are filled with young workers. Some have been exposed to poisonous chemicals, with devastating results.
This investigation, filmed secretly over four years, exposed the use of harmful chemicals in the factories producing the products many of us use. Hidden cameras captured the working conditions inside the factories churning out these products.
We've put you, the patient, at the centre of this investigation.
Nine weeks ago we placed a call out, across ABC programs and social media, asking you to send us your bills.
Hundreds of people across the country responded.
In this joint Four Corners investigation with Dr Norman Swan from RN's Health Report, the program examines what's driving these out of pocket expenses.
"The results are shocking and certainly show how out of pocket expenses are undermining the Australian private health care system."
Four Corners follows the money trail from New York to Moscow, tracking the ties between Trump, his business empire and Russia.
In part two, Four Corners speaks to key protagonists at the centre of the unfolding drama over members of the Trump team accused of being compromised by Russia.
In part three, Four Corners investigates the central allegations that members of the Trump team, including possibly the President himself, actively colluded with Russia to subvert American democracy.
From PBS Frontline.
Being tough on crime has become a popular mantra for political parties.
Law and order debates are frequently fuelled by tabloid headlines calling for a crackdown on crime.
The result is often harsher sentencing. In the United States it's led to thousands of prisoners facing mandatory life sentences for crimes they committed as teenagers.
Four Corners investigates some of the worst biosecurity breaches in Australian history, uncovering sophisticated smuggling operations, inadequate enforcement and corruption.
Last year a devastating exotic disease wiped out much of Queensland's prawn industry, threatening a lucrative trade based on our "clean" reputation and undermining faith in Australia's supposedly fortress-like borders.
Now a Four Corners investigation will reveal how Australia's biosecurity measures were defeated by sophisticated smugglers.
On the surface, Australia's racing industry has never been better.
With a prize pool that's grown to more than $600 million it's one of the biggest industries in the country, employing more than 50,000 people.
But away from the glamour all is not well in the sport of kings.
The story of a brave young soccer team gripped the world.
The extraordinary international effort to find and rescue 12 boys and their coach from a remote cave in northern Thailand was watched closely by millions.
On Monday Four Corners documents this wonderful and tragic tale from the day the boys first disappeared until the joyous moment the last person left the cave.
AMP was once a trusted blue chip Australian company but its reputation is now in tatters following evidence before the Financial Services Royal Commission that it charged customers fees for no service and repeatedly lied about it to the corporate regulator.
On Monday Four Corners investigates how AMP ripped off its customers and details the extraordinary measures it took to conceal its actions.
In a revealing interview a former financial planner gives an insider’s account of the tactics used by AMP to cheat customers out of their own money.
For more than three decades Cambodia has been ruled by one man, Prime Minister Hun Sen, who came to power in the country's first democratic elections after the horror years of the Khmer Rouge.
Australia played a key role in the peace deal that ended the bloody civil war, but the once bright hopes for democracy have long since faded.
On Monday, in her first story for Four Corners, reporter Sophie McNeill travels to Cambodia to confront the man whose political opponents have been imprisoned and assassinated in mysterious circumstances.
From Channel 4 (UK).
Facebook says it's on a mission to be the place where people connect and "bring the world closer together". More than a billion people are on the social networking site every day, posting their thoughts, pictures, and videos.
But alongside the family photos and FOMO inducing holiday videos is content that is truly disturbing.
This British investigation has exposed the inner workings of the social media giant to reveal how and why content moderation decisions are made.
Welcome to the new world of enhanced "beauty" where there's nothing natural about the faces and bodies created by cosmetic procedures.
Fuelled by social media influencers on Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, cosmetic surgery has entered the mainstream.
From dermal fillers and Botox, to butt lifts and breast implants, women are undergoing treatments that could change their lives forever, and not in the ways they were expecting.
Having a child is supposed to be the most natural thing in the world, but knowing how to raise one can be another thing entirely. Even in the most loving families, parenthood can be incredibly daunting.
On Monday, Four Corners brings you the story of three mothers determined to learn how to change the way they raise their children.
With extensive access to the pioneering Safecare program for parents whose children are at risk of neglect or harm, Four Corners follows these families, and the social workers teaching them, as they learn back to basic skills.
How the Liberal Party tore itself apart.
This special Four Corners investigation takes you inside a political catastrophe.
We chart the rise and fall of Malcolm Turnbull and the enemies that stalked him from within.
As the Liberal Party tries to piece itself back together after the chaos of last week, Four Corners brings you an interview with the man hoping to overthrow the entire political class.
Steve Bannon put Donald Trump in the White House and rewrote the rules of modern politics along the way.
Described as the most dangerous political operative in America, the strategist, renegade Republican and professional provocateur channelled the anger and disappointment of those who felt left behind by globalism to install Donald Trump as president.
Now, he's taking his cause to the world in a crusade to "save" western civilisation, as the leader of a global populist-nationalist movement. He calls it a revolution.
From BBC Three.
They were young girls and teenagers, on a night out to see their favourite pop star. Many were attending a concert, without their parents for the first time.
As the show ended, a terrorist detonated a home-made bomb packed with shrapnel.
Filmed over many months, this program tells the story of several young survivors as they, and their families try to reclaim their lives.
"They're all someone's mum, someone's dad, someone's brother, someone's sister. They were all young once and they're just forgotten."
On Monday Four Corners launches the first of a two-part special investigation into the treatment of the elderly in aged care homes.
In the ABC's biggest crowdsourced investigation, we asked our audience to share with us their experiences of the aged care industry. More than 4,000 responded.
Many of those who have come forward are professionals who have extensive experience in the industry and are concerned by what they have seen.
On Monday Four Corners will detail shocking cases of abuse and premature deaths in our nursing homes.
"If this was happening to our children, we would be in there and we would be fixing it and solving it."
A portrait of a community surviving the drought.
On Monday night, Four Corners brings you a story from the heart of the drought, a portrait of the land and its people, where the lack of rain is biting hard.
It's pushing some to breaking point, but many in this proud country community are doing all they can to give others the strength to carry on.
On Monday, Four Corners investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant Monsanto, to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, Roundup.
When it was launched four decades ago, Roundup was hailed as a miracle product, a revolutionary herbicide that would transform farming and keep home gardeners happy too. And it came with the promise that it was safe.
Now a landmark US court case has made headlines worldwide, with a jury declaring Roundup was a substantial factor in causing a school ground keeper's terminal cancer and that the company had failed to warn of the risk posed by the product.
From ITV.
A prison on fire, 600 inmates on the loose from their cells, and a band of prison officers desperately trying to contain a full-blown riot, all while footage of the violence is streamed live on social media.
The riot, at a major prison in Britain, highlighted problems facing governments around the world, including in Australia: how to manage soaring prison populations driven by law and order debates and public demands for tougher sentencing.
Using footage filmed by prisoners themselves in correctional facilities across the UK, the program reveals a system rife with drug use, violence and squalid living conditions.
They're the new force in Australian politics - a lobby group funded and directed by major firearms sellers and manufacturers and they're taking aim at Australia's politicians.
Their campaign represents a newly emboldened firearms industry set on changing Australia's gun laws.
On Monday Four Corners investigates how the gun movement in Australia is reawakening and examines the new tactics they're employing to make their presence felt on the political scene.
For almost two weeks Australia has felt the full force of a royal charm offensive.
The visit by the newly minted Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has been a triumph for the Royal couple and the House of Windsor brand.
It's a world away from the scandalous 1990s when the Royal family was embroiled in a rolling series of crises, indiscretions and PR disasters leaving them out of fashion and out of step with the times. Some were even talking about the end of the monarchy itself.
On Monday Four Corners charts how the Royals have rebuilt their reputation and changed the way they manage "The Firm".
For more than two years, the media has been reporting that Melbourne is in the grip of a crimewave, overrun by African street gangs responsible for a wave of violence and theft.
Images of brawling Sudanese teens and hooded armed robbers have spread terror and stoked a growing anger towards those "of African appearance".
Amongst the claims and counter claims, Four Corners reporter Sophie McNeill has spent weeks on the ground to get to the truth about "African" crime.
On Monday, Four Corners investigates the corporate crisis that engulfed the ABC and brought down both the Managing Director and the Chair in the space of one brutal week.
Reporter Sarah Ferguson, in interviews with the two key individuals at the centre of this tumultuous episode, investigates the tensions and allegations that have rocked the national broadcaster - from the appointment of a "change agent" to reinvent the corporation, to the assertion of political interference at the highest levels.
Former MD, Michelle Guthrie speaks for the first time about her sacking and the breakdown of her relationship with the ABC Board. Former Chair Justin Milne gives a frank account of the power struggle behind the scenes.
